On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 04:45:23PM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote: > > I have a new Toshiba laptop with an NVidia-based card. The screen can do > > a resolution of 1600x1200. > > > I tried to use my Gnome control panel > > to increase the font size, and that works for many applications, but a > > number of applications, notably mozilla, and xmms, still use painfully > > tiny fonts. I'd rather go back to using a resolution of 1024x768, which > > is comfortable for me. > > LCDs like on laptops can't really do that. They can scale 1024x768 up to > 1600x1200 and display that, but it's /ugly/. At least in my opinion, > you're much better off just fixing the fonts in everything.
Concur strongly. > > Any idea how to "stretch" the display to fill the screen in a smaller > > mode? > > It's often a BIOS setting. Otherwise, no idea sorry - p'haps somebody > with a Geforce*go based laptop can help out.... There's an "AllowStretch" keyword that's usable with the Chips driver; perhaps it works with the NV driver as well? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 The Suncoast Freenet The Things I Think Tampa Bay, Florida http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 OS X: Because making Unix user-friendly was easier than debugging Windows -- Simon Slavin, on a.f.c _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
