[Nouveau] How to set a different resolution?

[Maarten Maathuis]

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Maarten Maathuis <madman2003 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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).
>>
>>
>> --
>> Tomasz Chmielewski
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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.
>

I forgot to mention that's on DVI monitors.