<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 12:52 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:quozl@laptop.org">quozl@laptop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:57:17AM +0100, Strider wrote:<br>
> The problem with this is that the laptop isn't powerful enugh<br>
> to handle fullscreen applications at this resolution.<br>
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</div>All those I have tried have worked fine at this resolution. Which<br>
particular applications are you referring to?<br>
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I've tried; konqueror, galeon, gpredict, xclock, firefox, emacs, xterm,<br>
inkscape, gimp, abiword, openoffice, wesnoth, and xastir. I'm probably<br>
not using an application you're using. Which is it? Perhaps there is a<br>
design problem in the application. Perhaps the application requires a<br>
display bandwidth that exceeds what is available.<br>
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James Cameron mailto:<a href="mailto:quozl@us.netrek.org">quozl@us.netrek.org</a> <a href="http://quozl.netrek.org/" target="_blank">http://quozl.netrek.org/</a></font></blockquote><div><br>It is indeed the applications that are in cause. I tried zsnes which is not usable in other resolution than the original 256x224, I also ran the amiga emulator e-uae which does not support upscaling but only resolution changes. <br>
Other emulators such as dgen for the Sega Genesis or gnuboy for the game boy have a software scaling option working really well. One solution would be to patch each problematic application to support 1200x900 but it's will not be possible with closed source software. <br>
I'd also like to try to run games that ran on 1999's PCs such as Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament, I think the laptop is powerful enough to run these games at a 400x300 resolution but i doubt it will be smooth at 1200x900.<br>
<br>I have found this message : <a href="http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-driver-geode/2008-August/000353.html">http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-driver-geode/2008-August/000353.html</a> on the <a href="http://x.org">x.org</a> mailing list and it might be what i'm talking about, I have to give it a try.<br>
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