After system update, screen size very small
Solution 1:
I had a similar problem when I tried to remove my nVidia drivers.
You need to re-install ubuntu-desktop to get your normal screen back.
Refer here for complete information : How can I uninstall a nvidia driver completely ?
Solution 2:
You could also check out xrandr.
With no option gives you a list of available defaults.
Update with i.e.:
xrandr --output HDMI-0 --mode 1920x1080
Solution 3:
Epilogue: Since it all seems to be working now, I should share what I did. Probably not the best way, but since I'm a newb I just went with what I can find. :)
- Downloaded latest driver for 64bit / Linux from nVidia site
- Download and install
linux-headers-3.5.0-19-generic - Open terminal, change directory to where the .run from nvidia is downloaded
- In terminal
chmod +x ...the nvidia .run file - Reboot into recovery and login to recovery terminal
- Run this command so nVidia script can write to stuff
sudo mount -o remount,rw / - Run the nVidia script itself
sudo sh ./NVIDIA-... - Ignore the first "... script failed..." error. Select option to allow it to blacklist, mostly "yes", "agree", etc.
I think that's everything. I didn't think of this, but had I not had the shortcut on my desktop to get to terminal, I could have just rebooted into recovery mode to get the terminal and while googling found a hotkey to get there too (CTRL + ALT + F1?).
After this everything seems to be working. I used sudo nvidia-settings from terminal to rearrange the physical location of my monitors properly.
EDIT: This happened again after I updated my system...
I ran this command that I found here:
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r`
...and then basically repeated the entire process.