How can I change the screen resolution?

[CaptainZalo]

Hi,

Check out this thread.

http://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=980


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Hello,

I too have the same problem. I looked into the link above but that discussion seems too complex or technical for my understanding. As a newbie user of Pine64, I expected the resolution to be set in the mate configuration tool. Could you explain how can this be done if it's possible at all?

My current debian installation is (from uname -a):
Linux pine64pro 3.10.101-0-pine64-longsleep #39 SMP PREEMPT Sat May 7 12:39:25 CEST 2016 aarch64 GNU/Linux

The fast way to switch to 720p or 1080p (requires sunxi-disp-tool installed):
sunxi-disp-tool switch -name 720p
sunxi-disp-tool switch -name 1080p

Type (or paste) this into a command shell to change the default resolution to 720p:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install sunxi-disp-tool
cat <<EOF | sudo tee -a /boot/uEnv.txt
optargs=disp.screen0_output_mode=720p60
EOF
sudo reboot

Available display-modes (input after instead of 720p60 in line 3 in the script above) for /boot/uEnv.txt:

Code:

720p50 720p60 720p 1080i50 1080i60 1080p24 1080p50 1080p60 1080p 2160p24 2160p25 2160p30 2160p

Does this clarify?