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DeeCodeUh

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From: Michigan, USA

Registered: 2007-11-27

Posts: 176

Reolutions on my laptop screen

I have an NVidia Geforce 8400M (Mobile), and the only resolution it supports on my laptop screen is 1600x1050. (Won't go any less) This is great for desktop use, but when I want to play a game like sauerbraten, I don't want to run it at a full fledged 1600x1050, my graphics card has trouble handling it. When I used Wine for farcry, I can't choose any other resolution than my native res of 1600x1050 as well. (Which results in pretty choppy frame rates.)

Is there some way that I can stretch my screen to support smaller resolutions, but still stretch across my entire screen?

Here's my XF86Config file...

[coda@linux ~]$ cat /etc/X11/XF86Config
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder26)  Thu Feb 14 18:13:41 PST 2008


Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    RgbPath         "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "dbe"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "type1"
    Load           "freetype"
    Load           "glx"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "keyboard"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Unknown"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 110.0
    VertRefresh     50.0 - 150.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes "1600x1050" "1280x1024"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

DeeCodeUh

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From: Michigan, USA

Registered: 2007-11-27

Posts: 176

Re: Reolutions on my laptop screen

Bump.
I believe the correct term is flat panel scaling.
It doesn't happen here...is there a reason why?
Whenever I run anything with less of a resoltuion, a black box appears around the window.

syscrash2k

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Registered: 2005-05-07

Posts: 13

Re: Reolutions on my laptop screen

Try playing around in nvidia-settings.
Under something like "DFP-0 - (Monitor Name)", there is a "GPU Scaling Method"
thingy (at least there is for me).

DeeCodeUh

Member

From: Michigan, USA

Registered: 2007-11-27

Posts: 176

Re: Reolutions on my laptop screen

Thankyou for suggesting a solution, but I've already been there.
Here is a screenshot of what it looks like: http://deecode.bounceme.net/Nvidia-Settings.jpg
As you can see, the box is already checked but it still doesn't scale my screen on smaller resolutions.

DeeCodeUh

Member

From: Michigan, USA

Registered: 2007-11-27

Posts: 176

Re: Reolutions on my laptop screen

bump.