Widescreen Resolutions

Forum: DSL Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: Widescreen Resolutions
started by: Arioch

Posted by Arioch on Feb. 17 2004,00:47

Any future support for widescreen resolutions? I have been a long time DSL user and I recently bought a new laptop which has a 17" widescreen (1440x900) display. It would be great if a future release could support custom resolutions. Any ideas?

Posted by cbagger01 on Feb. 17 2004,02:09

If you can boot into a framebuffer mode that supports these resolutions, you may be able to use the xfbdev server to run XWindows for DSL.

If not, you are probably restricted to using a distribution that contains a normal XWindows setup like XFree86. DSL uses the kdrive "tinyx" servers, so functionality is limited.

Posted by Modrak on Feb. 17 2004,21:24

But the xvesa setup script sets something so why do not add 1440x900 to it...modify the xsetup.sh to handle that strange res :cool:

Posted by TyphoonMentat on Feb. 17 2004,21:57

I think the Xvesa server can only handle certain resolutions, not all the odd ones that are out there. If you try "Xvesa -listmodes" it will tell you what's available, so if your res is there then it should work

Posted by Arioch on Feb. 17 2004,23:23

Quote (cbagger01 @ Feb. 16 2004,21:09)

Cbagger,

That works. I don't know why I didn't try framebuffer before. It stretches everything out a bit but... it works.

Xvesa does not have my resolution, I just checked.

Thank you for the quick responses and suggestions.