One day I woke up and my normal ubuntu display had changed from 1920×1080 to 640×480 and under display that was the only option – stuck at 640×480 – ugly!
The computer has a nVidia geForce 1050 Ti graphics card, so what?
Googled the subject found a bunch of stuff like:
run vi or nano and uncomment in the file /etc/default/grub (sudo vi /etc/default/grub)
from
#GRUB_TERMINAL=console
to
GRUB_TERMINAL=console
save and exit
# now run
sudo update-grub
reboot
Ok, that got me to 1080×768 better, but not 1920×1080 that I had yesterday, what is up?
Well one kludgy sounding fix I ran across – worked for now – anyway:
# get the latest packages and install them
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
# detect what my devices are
ubuntu-drivers devices
I saw some nVidia stuff
then – this is what fixed it I think:
sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall
ubuntu has to fix these basic driver issues, a regular non-geek type user is never going to resolve this – so as long as problems like this pop-up in any version of ubuntu (I’m running 20.04) widespread adaption is out of the question…