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Hi, all,

If you enable "Pixel-Doubling" from within "Display Options" of raspi-config and reboot, using a Raspberry Pi 3b+, you'll brick your device and won't be able to log in. There is a greater explanation here of the technical details why this is failing: https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/133807/not-booting-after-enabling-pixel-doubling

Cheers,

I can confirm the issue with a 4B:

Feb 28 09:10:59 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Starting Light Display Manager...
Feb 28 09:10:59 raspberrypi lightdm[1385]: Error getting user list from org.freedesktop.Accounts: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Accounts was not provided by any .service files
Feb 28 09:10:59 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Started Light Display Manager.
Feb 28 09:11:01 raspberrypi lightdm[1397]: xrandr: unrecognized option '--filter'
Feb 28 09:11:01 raspberrypi lightdm[1397]: Try 'xrandr --help' for more information.
Feb 28 09:11:03 raspberrypi lightdm[1405]: xrandr: unrecognized option '--filter'
Feb 28 09:11:03 raspberrypi lightdm[1405]: Try 'xrandr --help' for more information.
Feb 28 09:11:04 raspberrypi systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Feb 28 09:11:04 raspberrypi systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Feb 28 09:11:04 raspberrypi systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Consumed 1.889s CPU time.
Feb 28 09:11:04 raspberrypi systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 25.
Feb 28 09:11:04 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Stopped Light Display Manager.

This issue really belongs in the raspi-config repo: https://github.com/RPi-Distro/raspi-config I would move the issue for you, but for historical reasons it is under the RPi-Distro organisation (also ours), and GitHub doesn't support moving issues between organisations.

@spl237

As it happens, I am currently in the process of removing this option - it's not needed under KMS, where you can just use the screen resolution tool to set a lower resolution.

Excellent, thanks all for taking a look at this; I saw the commit and change to the above distro, awesome! I'll forward any future issues with raspi-config to the above-linked github, thanks.

I wasn't sure what this "pixel-doubling" did, if it was resolution or dpi (dots-per-inch) changing, because it would be nice if there was a handy way to change dpi.