Laptops :: Other framebuffer sizes?

I just booted dsl on an old Toshiba Libretto 100CT (p166mx, 64mb ram, 2GB(!!) harddrive, 800x400 lcd; no usb ports at all and no cdrom boot, so I had to put KNOPPIX on the hard drive and boot from a pcmcia floppy). It worked _really well_ and looked GREAT once I switched over to the framebuffer boot parameter.

The choices you list for framebuffer sizes are ...|...|800x600. Is there any way, either at boot or later, to tell x to use 800x400? 800x600 works and looks good, but of course the desktop and some app windows run off the bottom of the screen. Alternatively, is there a way to scroll the window manager itself? (I seem to remember something like that -- virtual desktops? -- from the primeval days of X-windows.)

I am thinking of partitioning my 2 gig hardrive and tryng a dual boot install with win98. No doubt I will have other questions, notably about my pcmcia Orinocco Gold wifi card, but one thing at a time...

Thanks for such a nice distro.

Chris Conly, Seattle

On further exploration of the forum, this looks promising:
Later still: WRONG. This applies to Xvesa only, not the framebuffer drivers. (I'd delete it but there's no way to delete a post.)

[posted by] pr0f3550r
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Posted: May 27 2006,08:07 QUOTE
Code Sample
dsl@box:~$ cat .xserverrc | grep screen
exec /usr/bin/X11/Xvesa -mouse "/dev/psaux",5 -screen 1024x768x16 -shadow -nolisten tcp -I &>/dev/null

Modify the values and restart x

original here.