the hotkeys (Fn F5 for the Pavilion) do not control the scaling.


-- 
Steve Castillo

On 27 Aug 2002, Michel D�nzer wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 
> 

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