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. > > > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
