From: "" <dave@dpomeroy.com>
To: Ray Olszewski <ray@comarre.com>
Cc: Linux-Newbie <linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: monitor
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 14:34:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1083101651.408ed1d3d7128@webmail.dpomeroy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20040427135550.02d5a1c8@celine>
To put it simple, I want larger text and pictures keeping the lcd monitor
resolution at 1280X1024. I want a 1024X768 picture using a 1280X1024 screen
resolution. My monitor is a 17" Samsung lcd. Thanks for your time.
Dave
> At 01:20 PM 4/27/2004 -0700, dave wrote:
> >I purchased a 17" monitor with 1280X1024 resolution. That resolution
> >makes my text and pictures to small. I need to run 1024X768. However
> >1024X768 doesn't look very good. The detail is not sharp. Is ther anyway
> >to decrease the viewed resolution without reducing the video cards
> >resolution? I'm having a tough time explaining this so if you don't
> >understand and maybe I can answer some questions. Thanks for your time.
>
> Well ... it's probably not quite what you mean, but you can set up X so the
> physical display is a window into a larger, virtual display ... so you can
> see (as an example) a 640x480 area of a 1280X1024 display. Exactly how you
> do it depends on how your distro installs X, but usually this option gets
> offered as part of a configuration dialog.
>
> You would probably do better, though, to figure out why 1024x768 is
> unsatisfactory. With no information provided about the underlying hardware,
> it's hard even to ask meaningful questions beyond the obvious ones -- what
> video card, what physical display, what version of X, what X server, what
> Linux distro?
>
> The other suggestion someone made, to fiddlg with the refresh rate, might
> be a good one ... but the problem description is so vague that it's hard to
> know.
>
>
>
>
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-27 20:20 monitor dave
2004-04-27 20:34 ` monitor Armen Kaleshian
2004-04-27 21:03 ` monitor Ray Olszewski
2004-04-27 21:34 ` dave [this message]
2004-04-28 5:51 ` monitor Richard Adams
2004-04-27 21:15 ` monitor Steven Smith
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2023-03-23 10:28 [PATCH BlueZ 1/2] monitor: Fix crash when there is no write handler Simon Mikuda
2023-03-23 11:48 ` monitor bluez.test.bot
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