Eben King wrote:
>> Section "Screen"
>> Identifier "Screen0"
>> Device "NVidia Corporation NV36 [GeForce FX 5700LE] (rev a1)"
>> Monitor "Compaq0"
>> DefaultDepth 24
>> Subsection "Display"
>> Depth 24
>> Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>> EndSubsection
>>
>> Section "Screen"
>> Identifier "Screen1"
>> Device "NVidia Corporation NV36 [GeForce FX 5700LE] (rev a1)"
>> Monitor "Compaq1"
>> DefaultDepth 24
>> Subsection "Display"
>> Depth 24
>> Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>> EndSubsection
>
> While those extra resolutions are indeed smaller and thus should work,
> note that 1280x1024 is 5:4 and the others are 4:3, so switching to them
> will involve a bit of shape distortion (around 6-7%). Resolutions that
> are the same shape (960x760, 640x512) probably involve custom mode(line)s.
>
> And if this file works without the metamodes stuff, that'd be great news
> for me.
>
> AFAICT it should work fine. (IANAComputer)
Hi Eben!
It looked to me that you were on Gentoo? Or, at least you had a
reference to the Gentoo wiki. Gentoo, in my experience, does everything
the hard way. Ubuntu, on the other hand, has a lot of default handling
built into the kernel. Or so they say, and I hope!
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