On the Ryzen 4600G desktop and the ASUS TUF A15, AMD's GOP "sets" the
smaller modes without leaving the panel's native timing and reports the
mode's own row length. Every check the loader made passed, and the screen
showed three or four squashed copies side by side (1920/640, 2560/640).
Nothing the firmware reports can tell such a mode from a real one.
So a mode change now asks "Keep this resolution?" in the new mode and keeps
it only on Enter within ten seconds. On a mode that does not really work the
question cannot be read, and the old mode comes back by itself.
And the reason to want a smaller mode was the text: the console font was a
fixed 16 px, unreadable on a 1440p monitor. It now scales to about 45 rows,
16 to 40 px per em, on whatever mode the firmware booted in.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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