having Virtual be smaller than Mode size?

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le dimanche 05 février 2006 à 15:03 -0500, Alex Deucher a écrit :
> On 2/5/06, Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net> wrote:
> > Le dimanche 05 février 2006 à 19:36 +0100, Luc Verhaegen. a écrit :
> > > On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 07:20:51PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > > > Le jeudi 26 janvier 2006 à 20:47 +0100, Luc Verhaegen a écrit :
> > > > > This does require a driver capable of doing proper modesetting though.
> > > >
> > > > This does not work with my dvi-connected lcd. It will scale to full
> > > > screen regardless of the blanking tricks I tried. It seems the black bar
> > > > thing (widescreen film on 4/3 screen or the reverse) can only be
> > > > achieved by X drawing the bars itself (ie present the full screen
> > > > resolution to the screen, only a part of it to the apps, and fill the
> > > > rest in black)
> > > >
> > > > This would allow all sorts of cloning strategies between screens that
> > > > have different aspect ratios BTW
> >
> > > You've copied over the relevant bit: It requires a driver that is
> > > capable of doing proper modes.
> > >
> > > Please detail what driver you're using.
> >
> > Radeon driver
> >
> 
> The radeon driver doesn't currently respect user supplied modelines
> for DVI connected outputs.

Strange, the screen says 1024*768 at 74 and this is what I requested. I
doubt there is a @74 mode built-in the radeon driver

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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