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> On Saturday 30 December 2006 19:38, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: |
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>> Without modelines xorg selects 1280x1024 mode. |
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>> Well, I have played with 'videogen', tried plenty of different params |
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>> without any success. Are there other similar utils which can help here? |
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>> Is the driver (i810) known to do work at 1280x960? |
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>> 1280x1024 is one of the most spreaded mode, I think. Does it mean |
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>> millions |
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>> PC users see ellipses instead of circles? :-) |
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This isn't actually a Gentoo or even a hardware issue, what you describe is |
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exactly what should be expected. The issue is that most CRT, and many LCD |
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monitors are designed to display a "4 by 3" aspect ratio, the actual pixel |
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elements that make up the phyiscal surface of the display are actually this |
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size . 1280x960 IS 4:3 (1280/4 = 960/3) 1280x1024 is NOT 4:3 (1280/4 != |
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1024/3). If you created something that generated circles in an environment |
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that was NOT 4:3, you can't expect it to also generate circles in an |
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environment that IS 4:3, and vice versa. |
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HTH |
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Bob Young |
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