Setting custom screen resolution

[Bill Davidsen]

Chris Tyler wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 12:17 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>> I remember there being a app which helped generate custom parameters for video 
>> drivers. I would like to get some custom resolutions:
>>     768x12426
>>     900x14562
>>    1024x16568
>>    1920x1186
>>    1280x791
>>    1024x632
> 
> Just curious, what kind of hardware does 1024x16568?! (At 60 Hz refresh,
> that's a 1.5 GHz dotclock)
> 
Scaling error, the first three have the 2nd value expressed in 10ths, not 
rounded to the nearest dot. They are tall and skinny, roughly legal paper aspect 
in portrait mode, but not *that* tall. ;-)

In another discussion we were talking about aspect ratio, and wondering if 
values like that could actually be set for "how does that look to you" evaluation.

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