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

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