having Virtual be smaller than Mode size?

[Luc Verhaegen.]

On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 07:20:51PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le jeudi 26 janvier 2006 à 20:47 +0100, Luc Verhaegen a écrit :
> > This does require a driver capable of doing proper modesetting though.
> 
> This does not work with my dvi-connected lcd. It will scale to full
> screen regardless of the blanking tricks I tried. It seems the black bar
> thing (widescreen film on 4/3 screen or the reverse) can only be
> achieved by X drawing the bars itself (ie present the full screen
> resolution to the screen, only a part of it to the apps, and fill the
> rest in black)
> 
> This would allow all sorts of cloning strategies between screens that
> have different aspect ratios BTW
> 
> -- 
> Nicolas Mailhot
You've copied over the relevant bit: It requires a driver that is 
capable of doing proper modes.

Please detail what driver you're using. You might even want to provide 
a (g/bzipped) log.

Luc Verhaegen.