[Discuss] Wide screen monitor

[stanfish]

Chip appears to be AMD/ATI RadeonX 1650

David Bronaugh wrote:
> stanfish wrote:
>> I wonder if anyone could point me to where I can get information 
>> regarding altering my window to display in 1680X1050 pixels at 60 Hz. 
>> This does not seem to be available in Mepis, or any other Linux 
>> flavour that I have looked at.
>> Thanks,
>> Stan Fisher
> OK, what video chip are you using?
> 
> Some Linux drivers *cough*old Intel*cough* used the BIOS for 
> modesetting, which typically didn't include widescreen modes. So setting 
> such modes would work in Windows (which didn't use the BIOS) but not in 
> Linux (which did).
> 
> The new Intel driver -doesn't- have this problem; though others still 
> do. If you have a chipset supported by one of these wonderful drivers, 
> you might have to use a hack to work around this, such as overwriting a 
> mode in the VESA mode table. More on this later, if it turns out this is 
> what you need.
> 
> David
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