[ltp] Enabling lower screen resolutions?

Richard Neill linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:29:34 +0100


Juergen Botz wrote:
> I have a T61 running Fedora 12, but this would seem to be a general
> laptop issue...
> 
> When I run certain lower resolution games that have a fullscreen
> mode (i.e. freedoom) they just come up at as a small centered area
> with the rest of the screen black instead of taking over the screen.

That's actually a BIOS config option. Your BIOS lets you choose whether 
a non-native resolution should be scaled up (for fullscreen), or shown 1 
pixel-per-pixel (to avoid distortion).
I believe that this is the "HV Expansion" option in the BIOS.

HTH,

Richard