On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 02:51:11PM +0000, Louis Laborde wrote: > There seems to be a problem in both Windows and Linux to > display lower resolution full screen.
> Does anybody know how to stretch the display when using > lower than native resolutions? Most notebooks have a Fn key combo that switches between fullscreen and unscaled display. > Does anybody know if there > is a code to pass to the kernel to set the console in > 1400x1050 resolution ? There will almost certainly be a vesa mode for the panel's resolution, but it is often BIOS specific. SuSE's hwinfo package is able to probe all of the supported resolutions. I'm looking at the src now to see how it does it.... OK. It uses the bios's int10 via vm86(2) to get the list. So there are likely to be software you can run in legacy OSs to get the info if you have any problems getting hwinfo to run. Grab hwinfo at a suse mirror such as: http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/suse/suse/i386/7.3/suse/zq1/hwinfo.spm (That is a src.rpm file. Find a copy of rpm2cpio or use alien if you do not use an rpm distro.) Once you get it compiled, run: hwinfo --framebuffer to get the list of all vesa modes supported by your card and bios. -JimC -- James H. Cloos, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
