Display stuck on 800x600, listed as "unknown display"

Desktop Environments Budgie
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Hi again, this community was very helpful with some problems I had with my initial install. After about a day of using EOS with Budgie I’ve come into another problem.

After putting my PC into hibernate overnight, my display is now stuck on 800x600 and 60hz. Previously the display had auto-detected the resolution and been set to the maximum resolution (2560x1440)

I’m not able to change the resolution in Budgie settings, nor in arandr. I’ve seen on this forum EOS Budgie users with similar problems but mine seems to be unique in that I don’t even have the option to select a different resolution or refresh rate in either application.

Trying to change my resolution in terminal was also unsuccessful. It appears that EOS is unable to find/recognize the display:

xrandr --output DP-1 --mode 1920x1080 --rate 60~
warning: output DP-1 not found; ignoring

xrandr --output DP-2 --mode 1920x1080 --rate 60~
warning: output DP-2 not found; ignoring

xrandr --output DP --mode 1920x1080 --rate 60~
warning: output DP not found; ignoring

xrandr --output DisplayPort --mode 1920x1080 --rate 60~
warning: output DisplayPort not found; ignoring

I am using an MSI Pro MP275Q 27" WQHD 2560x1440 monitor as my only display. It is connected to my PC using DisplayPort. PC specs are Intel Core i5-12400F, DDR 5 32GB, RTX 3050 6GB, 1TB SSD.

EDIT: I don’t think this is a Budgie issue actually. Tried to see whether KDE would be more cooperative and the KDE display settings say 800x600 is the “only resolution available for this display”.

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what is the output of
xrandr -q

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Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 800 x 600, maximum 4096 x 4096
None-1 connected primary 800x600+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm
   800x600       60.00*+
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are you running budgie 10.10 or higher?

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I am on 10.9.4-2 - when I try to update from terminal it says this is the most recent version.

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ok

starting 10.10 they will be wayland only so hmm do you have another cable to test the display with?

also try just for giggles
xrandr --output None-1 --mode 1920x1080 --rate 60~

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xrandr: cannot find mode 1920x1080

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thats what I expected ok yeah other than a cable or an issue with the video card? what card is this inxi -Gaz

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Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GA107 [GeForce RTX 3050 6GB] driver: N/A alternate: nouveau
non-free: 550-580.xx+ status: current (as of 2025-11; EOL~2026-12-xx)
arch: Ampere code: GAxxx process: TSMC n7 (7nm) built: 2020-2023 pcie:
gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 8 link-max: lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.0
chip-ID: 10de:2584 class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: ``X.Org`` v: 21.1.21 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.9
compositor: budgie-wm driver: X: loaded: modesetting
alternate: fbdev,nouveau,nv,vesa gpu: N/A display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 800x600 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 211x158mm (8.31x6.22")
s-diag: 264mm (10.38")
Monitor-1: Unknown-1 mapped: None-1 res: mode: 800x600 hz: 60
scale: 100% (1) size: N/A modes: 800x600
API: EGL Message: No EGL data available.
API: OpenGL v: 4.5 vendor: mesa v: 25.3.3-arch1.1 glx-v: 1.4 es-v: 3.2
direct-render: yes renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 21.1.6 256 bits)
device-ID: ffffffff:ffffffff memory: 30.45 GiB unified: yes
API: Vulkan Message: No Vulkan data available.
Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor gpu: nvidia-smi
wl: wayland-info,wlr-randr x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr

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This is your issue you don’t have a driver for you video card you probably need to install the drivers for your nvidia

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