Custom Resolution Utility (CRU)

[br0adband]

(05-14-2018 12:25 PM)ToastyX Wrote:  You need to install the Haswell driver listed in the first post. Older drivers do not support EDID overrides.

Where does the text turn red? You should be able to add 2560x1440 as a detailed resolution. Keep in mind that CRU does not add scaled resolutions, and laptop screens don't have scalers, so you need to enable GPU scaling for lower resolutions to work correctly.

I installed the Haswell drivers (the 4th gen ones, not the 4th/5th gen ones), and it still won't allow me to make changes in any respects. I decided to check out Manjaro Linux for fun and games just for about 30 minutes earlier and was surprised to see it allowed me to set 2560x1440 directly from the Display applet (I was booted off a USB LiveDistro stick I made from the latest Manjaro Gnome release). Worked fine, not a single issue at all.

But the Intel graphics crap, it really sucks sometimes. It would have been so much easier if Lenovo had just allowed for end users to disable the onboard GPU entirely and use the discrete graphics chip only. I really hate that decision on their part because this does cause more issues than it solves, unfortunately.

As far as the red text, it's when I try to manually add a new resolution in CRU - the resolution numbers I type become red in color and the OK button remains ghosted as shown in the picture:



I've pretty much decided to just forgo these issues. It's funny that I can install Manjaro Linux right now, set the resolution for 2560x1440, and even install Windows 7 Pro x64 in a virtual machine and get that resolution without a single issue, with full hardware acceleration and even watch videos without issues (except of course the crappy visual tearing that Linux just can't ever seem to get fixed because of driver support for Nvidia GPUs).

Anyway, thanks for responding, I'll just let this go, I appreciate the info.