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After installing Nvidia drivers (I assume its that, fresh install looked fine) I can no longer boot grub with 1920x1080.

I have tried the normal solutions with adding:

GRUB_GFXMODE=1280x1024
GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep

I´ve entered "c" in grub boot and this is the highest resolution i see there. The splash also looks bad (like an 8bit nintendo) when loading Ubuntu.

Is there any way to solve this other than reverting to X driver? (would reverting cause performance issues? i dont play in linux, mostly video managing and editing / mediaserver / other servers...)

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    There is no way with a proprietary driver. Why do you need grub with high resolution?
    – Pilot6
    Mar 3, 2016 at 20:52
  • I dont, its just annoying....
    – Izzno
    Mar 3, 2016 at 21:17
  • Try adding GRUB_GFXMODE=1920x1080` on the off chance it works, but have a LiveCD/LiveUSB handy just in case grub dies. Mar 3, 2016 at 22:55
  • I´ve done that and it just reverts to 640 ;)
    – Izzno
    Mar 4, 2016 at 0:11

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Unfortunately, the proprietary driver does not support high resolution during boot-up. You could uninstall the proprietary drivers, but graphics performance will not be near as good. You can remove the proprietary drivers for the Software and Updates dialog (though I would not recommend it).

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  • What kind of performance drop are we talking about? Like i mentioned, I use it as a workstation / Server.
    – Izzno
    Mar 4, 2016 at 0:15
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    As a server, you could go with either driver, as the driver mainly affects the graphics performance. As a workstation, it depends on the kind of work you do, and also on what desktop environment you use (Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu (my personal favorite)/Lubuntu). Mar 4, 2016 at 1:22
  • At first i hated Unity... I used one week trying to adapt cinnamon. When i realized i could not get it the way i want i forced my self to try Unity, and now i love it. I did not think about Compiz and such... So, sticking with proprietary drivers.
    – Izzno
    Mar 4, 2016 at 1:42
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Does anyone have experience with the Ubuntu-X drivers? Would this fix the boot resolution?

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