On Sat, 9 Jun 2007 01:34:59 +0200 "Carlos Martín Nieto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 08/06/07, TheOldFellow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > never had one of these before. How in (expletive deleted) do you > > get things like jpegs to display with the right aspect ratio in, > > say, Gimp? > > You need to set the resolution to a widescreen one (1280x800 is a > popular one). On LFS, I suppose you have to do it yourself, basically > every other distribution will detect a widescreen monitor and set the > resolution appropiately. > > cmn Thanks for this. It turns out to be slightly more complicated. The Intel i810 driver has some deficiencies and relies on the Bios passing the correct information - it doesn't. Turns out I need 915resolution a hack for the video bios. Then the driver gets the resolution right. Link here: http://www.geocities.com/stomljen/ Replying for the Arch Hives. R. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
