Virtual desktop - smaller than display

[Alex Deucher]

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Martin Langhoff
<martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com> wrote:
>> if your hw supports a scaler, just set the smaller mode and have it
>> scale up to the larger screen mode.  If not, you'll have to mess with
>> the h/v border widths in the modeline to generate a center mode.
>
> Hmmm. Interesting. Does it work on LCDs? How do I calculate that?
>
> Current modeline is (from Xorg.0.log)
>
> 1200x900 x50.6 57.27 1200 1208 1216 1240 900 905 908 912 -hsync -vsync
>

Something like:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6.git;a=blob;f=drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lvds.c;h=31df55f0a0a7950a0e59ebce556fc30cde35b891;hb=refs/heads/drm-next#l276

Alex

> cheers,
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