1 - Started day with the obstacle course to dock L5 - success.
2 - Notified there were updates - let updates through - success.
3 - When the update show was over, everything went back to just a L5 no keyboard/mouse or monitor.
4 - Setting no longer recognizes the Samsung monitor.
5 - The tweak of 200% to make things visible on L5, dropped to - well, too small to read. The light at top right blinks redish/orange/yellow. Maybe it’s the very hot L5 that flickers the light.
6 - Bought a big mag glass and could see enough to get to Settings > Display. but the Samsung is not available. Says “unknown”.
Very hard to work with especially when I’m required to enter the “passphrase” S/B password. A passphrase is a set or words, not just numbers. Everything is so small - again.
Is there a fall-back trick to so I can restore it to what worked before the different software was downloaded and installed (AKA update)?
Good updates should not cause this.
~s
p.s. Please, stay on this topic. Taking it off topic will result in 10000 fleas invading your undies.
My Phone resets Zoom-Settings after updates too. I set my Screens to 150, to see more on Apps, Webpages and so on, so everything got smaller on the Display.
However if you need to have a big screen because the usual Librem5 Screen is too small… i do not know an answer.
Some screens have the Ability to Auto-Adjust. and this will help. In some case it can be that in early stages your Phone offer on Terminal a small resolution which is not supported by “Big Screens”. In That case the screen stay black.
Your Option is now: Enter the Password blind if you knew it, and just guess. With your Keyboard Attached.
Or put your Phone on that Docking Stage after the boot was successful - it just fit if you can use your tiny screen and Keyboard to enter your File-Storage Password, if you not changed it the Default was: 123456
What you can try too, is have your Phone connected to your Monitor, and Power Off the Screen/Monitor, and Repower it again so that the screen have to reboot. Often it resets the Screen-Settings for New Devices and Connections (due to DRM and its how it works too.). So you can have luck with this tests.
I can not help with Adjustments on the Librem5 and additional Screens cause i missed to buy an Adapter for sat case. Will try to buy one soon.
Edit: Ah what you can do too, is to reset/delete your Monitors Files.
It is stored in
~/.config/monitors.xml
Check if the File exists and have some Information, and if it did not work just take a backup elsewhere and delete it, to force a fresh default creation.
