# Screen resolution going back to default (Ubuntu Budgie 20.10, NVIDIA, Intel i7)

**URL:** <https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/screen-resolution-going-back-to-default-ubuntu-budgie-20-10-nvidia-intel-i7/4365>\
**Category:** Budgie Desktop\
**Created:** [November 10, 2020, 1:19pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/screen-resolution-going-back-to-default-ubuntu-budgie-20-10-nvidia-intel-i7/4365 "2020-11-10T13:19:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![nzjc](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/nzjc/32/2900_2.png) [@nzjc](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/nzjc)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2020, 1:19pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/screen-resolution-going-back-to-default-ubuntu-budgie-20-10-nvidia-intel-i7/4365/1 "2020-11-10T13:19:58Z")

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Hi everyone

I am using a fresh out of the box Budgie 20.10 install on my primary desktop.

- i7 2600k
- 16GB DDR
- GTX 1070

After install, my full screen resolution was correctly detected, looked amazing (1440p). After a reboot though, things shift back to 1024x768 and I can’t select a different resolution from the GUI. The NVIDIA driver appears to be loaded.  
nvidia-smi shows

```auto
Tue Nov 10 13:18:12 2020
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 450.80.02 Driver Version: 450.80.02 CUDA Version: 11.0 |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
| 0 GeForce GTX 1070 Off | 00000000:01:00.0 Off | N/A |
| 33% 42C P0 33W / 151W | 0MiB / 8116MiB | 2% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=============================================================================|
| No running processes found |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

```

This is the second attempt at this, first time I used a more maximal approach when install budgie (all the apps out of the box), same issue as with this more minimal one.

Any help much appreciated.

James

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**Author:** ![fossfreedom](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/fossfreedom/32/1405_2.png) [@fossfreedom](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/fossfreedom)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2020, 1:33pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/screen-resolution-going-back-to-default-ubuntu-budgie-20-10-nvidia-intel-i7/4365/2 "2020-11-10T13:33:37Z")

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Sounds like a bug in the proprietary driver ☹

Does any of this help you? [https://askubuntu.com/a/222281/14356](https://askubuntu.com/a/222281/14356)

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**Author:** ![nzjc](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/nzjc/32/2900_2.png) [@nzjc](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/nzjc)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2020, 1:57pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/screen-resolution-going-back-to-default-ubuntu-budgie-20-10-nvidia-intel-i7/4365/3 "2020-11-10T13:57:46Z")

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Thansks - I followed Jim Salter’s approach (saving nvidia settings to /etc/X11/xorg.conf) and that seems to have made no difference.

My xorg.conf now has

```auto
Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device "Device0"
    Monitor "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth 24
    Option "Stereo" "0"
    Option "nvidiaXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-2"
    Option "metamodes" "2560x1440_144 +0+0"
    Option "SLI" "Off"
    Option "MultiGPU" "Off"
    Option "BaseMosaic" "off"
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth 24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

```

in it, which matches the answer given in that link - but I still get bogus resolution following a reboot.

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**Author:** ![nzjc](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/nzjc/32/2900_2.png) [@nzjc](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/nzjc)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2020, 5:09pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/screen-resolution-going-back-to-default-ubuntu-budgie-20-10-nvidia-intel-i7/4365/4 "2020-11-10T17:09:22Z")

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It turns out I can kick this into life by running `sudo systemctl restart display-manager` - not ideal, but it’s nice to have 1440p again 😃

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**Author:** ![fossfreedom](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/fossfreedom/32/1405_2.png) [@fossfreedom](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/fossfreedom)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2020, 5:25pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/screen-resolution-going-back-to-default-ubuntu-budgie-20-10-nvidia-intel-i7/4365/5 "2020-11-10T17:25:40Z")

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Please file a bug report so that the Canonical devs are aware

```
ubuntu-bug libmutter-7
```

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**Author:** ![nzjc](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/nzjc/32/2900_2.png) [@nzjc](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/nzjc)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2020, 5:38pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/screen-resolution-going-back-to-default-ubuntu-budgie-20-10-nvidia-intel-i7/4365/6 "2020-11-10T17:38:04Z")

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> [@fossfreedom](#):
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> `ubuntu-bug libmutter-7`

OK thanks I will try and do that.

```auto
james@beasty:~$ ubuntu-bug libmutter-7
dpkg-query: no packages found matching libmutter-7

```

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**Author:** ![fossfreedom](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/fossfreedom/32/1405_2.png) [@fossfreedom](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/fossfreedom)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2020, 9:45pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/screen-resolution-going-back-to-default-ubuntu-budgie-20-10-nvidia-intel-i7/4365/7 "2020-11-10T21:45:20Z")

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ah - typo - libmutter-7-0

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**Author:** ![nzjc](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/nzjc/32/2900_2.png) [@nzjc](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/nzjc)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2020, 11:06pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/screen-resolution-going-back-to-default-ubuntu-budgie-20-10-nvidia-intel-i7/4365/8 "2020-11-10T23:06:56Z")

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OK I submitted a bug, but unfortunately that PC had to go into a shipping container tomorrow morning, so I’m out of troubleshooting time for the next 12 weeks. 😃