4:3 resolutions on a widescreen notebook display

Dave Mitchell davem at iabyn.com
Sun Feb 4 16:55:32 UTC 2007


On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 10:03:25PM +0100, Gérard Milmeister wrote:
> Hi,
> I just bought a notebook with an ATI X1600 card and a 1680x1050 display.
> This works fine with the fglrx driver (except AIGLX). I can also easily
> switch resolutions with xrandr. However 4:3 resolutions such as 1024x768
> are always stretched to fill the screen which is a little annoying since
> such resolutions are required to drive external displays such as
> projectors.
> Is there a way to keep the pixels square and not stretch?

I don't know about ATI, but on my Dell + Intel 945GM laptop there's a BIOS
setting that does this.

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