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LucetLux

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Registered: 2013-08-16

Posts: 165

Scaling setting opensource ati driver

I use the opensource ati driver, my monitor's aspect ratio is 16:9 and I'm trying to get older 4:3 aspect games to scale according to my aspect ratio, that is, with black bars in both sides instead of stretched to the whole screen.
With catalyst this is an easy thing to do in the control center, I just enable GPU scaling setting it to keep the aspect ratio, however with the os driver things aren't that easy.
I tried using xrandr to do this but it doesn't seem to work, if I use "xrandr --output DVI-0 --set "scaling mode" full_aspect"
it returns this:

X Error of failed request:  BadName (named color or font does not exist)
  Major opcode of failed request:  140 (RANDR)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  11 (RRQueryOutputProperty)
  Serial number of failed request:  43
  Current serial number in output stream:  43

Thank you in advance for any help you can provide.

sekret

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Registered: 2013-07-22

Posts: 308

Re: Scaling setting opensource ati driver

According to this it must be

xrandr --output DVI-0 --set "scaling mode" Full

Does this command work?

LucetLux

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Registered: 2013-08-16

Posts: 165

Re: Scaling setting opensource ati driver

That would make it stretched which isn't what I want, I want the exact opposite from that thread, it also gives me the same output as before.

LucetLux

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Registered: 2013-08-16

Posts: 165

Re: Scaling setting opensource ati driver

Any ideas ?