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Posted: Feb. 17 2004,00:47 QUOTE
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?
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Posted: Feb. 17 2004,02:09 QUOTE
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.
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Posted: Feb. 17 2004,21:24 QUOTE
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:
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Posted: Feb. 17 2004,21:57 QUOTE
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 :)
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Posted: Feb. 17 2004,23:23 QUOTE
Quote (cbagger01 @ Feb. 16 2004,21:09)
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.

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.
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