Can't set screen resolution

I have a Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro. The native resolution is 3200x1800. On archlinux (running latest Gnome3), I don't have the option to set the resolution to 1080p (1920x1080). However, I do have this option on Ubuntu and it works perfectly.
I have read https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/xr … esolutions and did what it says. Here's my script to change the resolution:
xrandr --newmode 1080p 173.00 1920 2048 2248 2576 1080 1083 1088 1120 -hsync +vsync
xrandr --addmode eDP1 1080p
xrandr --output eDP1 --mode 1080p
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface text-scaling-factor 1.0
It worked for a while, but a few months ago, it stopped working. When I run this script, the screen would blink twice, and go back to 3200x1800. I ran the script with `journalctl -f` on, and here's what's in my logs:
Mar 21 11:45:42 sargas gdm-Xorg-:0[303]: (II) intel(0): resizing framebuffer to 1920x1080
Mar 21 11:45:42 sargas gdm-Xorg-:0[303]: (II) intel(0): switch to mode [email protected] on eDP1 using pipe 0, position (0, 0), rotation normal, reflection none
Mar 21 11:45:43 sargas gdm-Xorg-:0[303]: (II) intel(0): resizing framebuffer to 3200x1800
Mar 21 11:45:43 sargas gdm-Xorg-:0[303]: (II) intel(0): switch to mode [email protected] on eDP1 using pipe 0, position (0, 0), rotation normal, reflection none
You can see it switched right back to 3200x1800. I don't see any information in other logs such as the X logs. Any idea how I go about debugging it? I know it's a supported resolution since I can change to it under Ubuntu and it used to work under Arch.
Thanks in advance!

My sysadmin skills are rusty. I'm not sure how to see how it was mounted. I selected it from the vm's Devices menu and it gets mounted under /media.
-r-xr-xr-x 1 pnosko root 2825675 Jun 25 10:00 VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run
[root@oracle11gr2 VBOXADDITIONS_3.2.6_63112]# head -5 V*86.run
#!/bin/sh
# This script was generated using Makeself 2.1.5
CRCsum="323821212"
MD5="27c56ae5150d4947b538ddc6e66a0b19"
It is executable, and I believe a ./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run runs it, and yes, by "points to" I meant the first line in the script. So I'm not sure why I have to invoke it as */bin/sh* ./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run to get it to run successfully.
I'm obviously beyond this, but if you have an answer it would satisfy a bit of curiosity.
After installing the additions, I can still only run at 1600x1200. I can live with this. I suspect it's a VirtualBox limitation since I can only give 128mb to video memory. After the GUI oracle11g database install, ssh is all I need anyway.
Thanks all.

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