On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 15:44:37 -0700 "Mark Cuss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
Hello all,
I have a question regarding wide aspect LCD panels and XFree... I'm thinking about a new laptop (a Dell Inpsiron 8500) that was a wide aspect LCD (1920 x 1200). I've never run XFree86 on anything other than a 4:3 ratio monitor, and am wondering if this wide aspect screen would pose a problem?
you biggest problems will be aesthetic. x itself doesn't care what the aspect is. it's irrelevant really. the real problem will be with desktop and other application software making the general assumption of 4:3 ratio and so images may get stretched a bit wider or tiled when you dont want them to etc. it's all on a app-by-app, case-by-case basis.
X does support the concept of seperate DPI in the X & Y direction on a per screen basis. I'm not sure that any drivers do much but fill in a default value which would be inaccurate for non-square pixels. Then there's the issue of the applications paying attention to this value...
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