On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 11:13 -0400, Thomas J. Baker wrote:
I have a laptop with i945 graphics. Any reason why the screen would be limited like it seems to be:
continuity> xrandr Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1280 x 800, maximum 1280 x 1280 VGA connected (normal left inverted right) 1280x1024 75.0 59.9 1152x864 74.8 1024x768 75.1 60.0 800x600 75.0 60.3 640x480 75.0 60.0 720x400 70.1 LVDS connected 1280x800+0+0 (normal left inverted right) 261mm x 163mm 1280x800 60.0*+ 60.0 1280x768 60.0 1280x720 60.0 1024x768 60.0 800x600 60.3 640x480 59.9 TV disconnected (normal left inverted right) continuity> xrandr --output VGA --mode 1280x1024 --pos 1281x0 xrandr: screen cannot be larger than 1280x1280 (desired size 2561x1024) continuity> xrandr --output VGA --mode 1024x768 --pos 1281x0 xrandr: screen cannot be larger than 1280x1280 (desired size 2305x800) continuity> xrandr --output LDVS --mode 1280x800 --output VGA --mode 1024x768 --pos 1281x0 xrandr: screen cannot be larger than 1280x1280 (desired size 2305x800) continuity>
The display size is limited at server startup, because XAA's memory allocator is spectacularly bad. I don't know if there's a good workaround for this. Try setting a Virtual size in the Screen section of xorg.conf?
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