Re: Display Resolution 320x240

From: Sebastian Leske (Sebastian.Leske@bigfoot.de)
Date: Mon Aug 13 2001 - 11:10:00 CEST


Hi,

> im working with a small 486-Industrial-PC which has a small LC-Display and a touchscreen.
> Mulinux works fine on this machine. My problem is, that the resolution of the
> display is only 320x240, so only the upper left part of the screen is
> displayed.
[...]
> Does anyone know how to configure linux for a resolution
> 320x240 ????

I'm not sure this works under muLinux (it should be possible though), but in
general you can use svgatextmode at
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/utils/console/
(should be part of most distributions anyway) to manipulate the textmode Linux
uses. You can also compile a kernel with framebuffer support, then you can
choose the display characteristics through kernel boot parameters (see the
kernel docs in /usr/src/linux/Documentation for details). Either of those should
do it, but svgatextmode is probably easier, since it works with any kernel.

> Under X11 it can be configured by the geometry parameter of the applications,

It would probably be better to just make X use a smaller resolution, by telling
it not to use a virtual resolution greater than the actual display resolution
(the virtual resolution, i.e. size of the virtual, scrollable desktop, is set
by the parameter
Virtual
in the XF86Config).

Greetings,

Sebastian Leske

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