[Nouveau] How to set a different resolution?

[Maarten Maathuis]

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 7:34 AM, Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo at wpkg.org> wrote:
> Michael Kreitzer schrieb:
>> Tomasz,
>>
>> It sounds to me like what may be happening is the video card is doing the
>> scaling instead of the monitor.  This is evidenced by the fact that the
>> resolution does change, but the LCD still sees the native resolution coming
>> in. This shouldn't affect dual head, however.
>>
>> I'm not sure how to change this. It's also possible your monitor needs this.
>> This should, however, give you a starting point on where to look for how to
>> correct this.
>
> With nvidia or nv driver though, the monitor sees the correct resolution
> (I can't use dual head with nv, though).
>
>
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There should be a SCALING_MODE property, which can be set to
"fullscreen", the default however (iirc) is "aspect" scaling which may
leave top or bottom bars (but not both).

Maarten.