[ltp] Lower screen resolution possible?

[Tod Harter]

I'm pretty sure you're correct Vivek, thats why if you want to do video out on 
the A20p I have you have to put X into 800x600 (or theoretically I guess 
756x468) mode, even the SVideo out is really just the same data that goes to 
the CRT, but encoded differently. There is only one video subsystem, thus 
only one set of data, it can go to the LCD, a CRT, or in some systems to 
video out. You would have to have a whole other video chipset in order to 
have 2 different resolutions at once. Even dual-head cards like the radeon 
8500 aren't THAT sophisticated.

Mandrake 9.1 seems to have XF86 4.3 as the default X server, so that might be 
a good solution for people. I know nothing about xrendr though, its not 
something anyone has played with much yet I'm guessing! 

On Tuesday 01 April 2003 09:08 am, Vivek wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Jan Frey wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > Is there a way to specify a different resolution for TFT and external
> > CRT? Can I at least tell XFree86 to use 1024x768 _virtual size_ if in
> > 1024x768 mode?
>
> Xfree 4.3.0 contains xrandr which can resize/reflect/rotate the root
> window: You could use that. If upgrading to 4.3.0 is not an option,
> then there's the rather unsatisfying option of having 2 different
> config files and restarting X with the appropriate one.
>
> I don't know whether the A[23]0 can send different signals to the LCD
> and CRT: afaik the CRT output is 'just' a duplicate of the LCD signal
> implemented in hardware, and not a genuine multi-display thing, bicbw.

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Tod Harter
Giant Electronic Brain
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