From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 29 02:49:52 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1866716A4CF for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 02:49:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from hotmail.com (law11-oe15.law11.hotmail.com [64.4.16.119]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0714F43F93 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 02:49:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from weiwuzhang@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 02:49:47 -0800 Received: from 218.193.5.120 by law11-oe15.law11.hotmail.com with DAV; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 10:49:47 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [218.193.5.120] X-Originating-Email: [weiwuzhang@hotmail.com] Message-ID: <3FA0ECE2.6010603@hotmail.com> Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 18:50:10 +0800 From: Zhang Weiwu User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031025 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 29 Oct 2003 10:49:47.0907 (UTC) FILETIME=[5F1C7D30:01C39E0A] Subject: run XFree86 at 512x384 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 10:49:52 -0000 Hello. I'm running FreeBSD 5.1 on Thinkpad 600X -- my old Pentium 500MHz notebook with neomagic at XGA resolution. My CPU isn't fast enough to view some divx movie in enlarged mode, but the movies looks bad just in a small window. I wish I can setup the XFree86 server to run at 512x384 resolution, which is very close to my movies' size. I know it can be totally impossible. I just want to try my luck here if someone knows right about it:) I remember I played games at 512x384 several years ago on a PII Windows PC, so this seems to be a reachable resolution on some cards. However I don't have knowledge if my neomagic card support it, neither do I know where to look for the supported resolutions. Of course I can use VGA resolution, but VGA looks bad, because on LCD: some pixels are stretched to two, some stretched to three. If I can use 512x384 then every pixel is stretched to four, which would look better. Do I need to add a modeline to the XF86Config? What about ModeLine parameters? Besides, if 512x384 is possible, I can play NEO*GEO arcade games with xmame smoothly. I will love it. Thank you.