Yes, it does support scaling up to 1440x... but only if there is enough memory to allocate a buffer of that size (4-8MB of framebuffer).
I've done an upload to mitigate the problem by having totem not try to display a HUGE startup logo. -- Totem receives BadAlloc when playing very large movies using Xv https://launchpad.net/bugs/4229 -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
