fast helm
Laptop: LG Gram 15
NixOs
I just switched from linux mint to nixos and upon booting the new os my resolution is locked at 800x600, and I can't change it on the gnome display settings. when using xrandr I don't see a mode available for 1920x1080. My guess is a missing driver issue, but from what I can see intel arc gpus are included in the kernel for recent versions of nix.
fwiw I intend to run hyprland on this. But running it was far worse than gnome so I'll try to do the debuging on gnome for now
fast helm
I tried to fresh install. For some reason the installer running gnome works perfectly fine, has the right resolution, and xrandr calls out all the monitor options. When I actually launch nixos, the resolution is back to 800x600 and xrandr says that's the only mode
fast helm
SOLUTION: Despite what many reports say, NIXOS does NOT natively like the intel arc gpus. Link below describes a quick and easy solution, it specifies alder lake, but I'm running meteor lake and it seems to be a solid solution when running gnome.
however, as I said I'm intending to run hyprland. It did improve performance on hyprland a LOT and also increased the resolution to 1280x720 on xrandr (for some reason). Hope this helps someone in the future
ok so it seems to have been fixed. I don't know what I did though. Xrandr is not the correct way of checking in hyprland, you have to use hyprctl monitors. When I did that, it claimed 1080p, however I just felt off. I went into hyprland.conf and change it to 720p as a test, and it changed, then I changed it back to preferred, and it suddenly looked right.