On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 21:24, Markus Gutschke wrote: > Michel D�nzer wrote: > >>When running in a resolution lower than the laptop native resolution, I > >>do not want the display to be scaled to the entire screen, which is what > >>this XAA feature apparently does. > > > > It doesn't, as you'll find out when trying these options. :) That > > feature is mainly used to accelerate the drawing of monochrome text. > > > > As for the mode scaling, I'm not aware of a way to turn that off; what's > > the behaviour you'd like to achieve? > > I have always been under the impression that this is a feature of the LCD panel > and not of the graphics card. As far as I can tell, video timing signals stay > exactly the same independent of whether scaling is enabled or not. XFree86 is > mostly concerned with programming the graphics chipset, and as such I don't know > whether it would be able to control scaling. Typically, this is something that > the system BIOS does, and on many laptops this is controlled by hotkey sequences > (e.g. Fn-F7 or something like that).
The radeon driver does control the scaling, those hotkeys might still work though. -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
