xorg is stretching my screen

sfcfagwdse · n00b Joined: 29 Mar 2004 Posts: 39 Location: Portland, OR

I have a toshiba m30 laptop and I don't want xorg to stretch the screen when I go into a non-widescreen resolution. The bois is set not to stretch, there is no framebuffer enabled and the screen isn't stretched until X is started. Is there an option somewhere that disables this? I have tried both nvidia and nv drivers. I am really stumped here.

here is my xorg.conf:

dkaplowitz · Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2004 1:53 pm Post subject:

Is it really supposed to be 1280x800 rather than the standard 1280x1024? It looks wrong to me b/c the other resolutions you've defined have normal parameters. But maybe that's what your monitor requires?
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sfcfagwdse · n00b Joined: 29 Mar 2004 Posts: 39 Location: Portland, OR

Yes 1280x800 is my laptop's native resolution, it works fine there. I want it not to stretch my screen on other resolutions like 1024x768 because it looks like crap when playing a game or something. BTW I booted up a knoppix live cd and it didn't stretch in xfree, so i coppied the XF86Config file over to my xorg install and it still stretched, so i think it may be a bug with xorg. Anyone have any ideas?

sfcfagwdse · n00b Joined: 29 Mar 2004 Posts: 39 Location: Portland, OR

It must not be caused by a particular version of X because I tried installing Xfree 4.3 and the same thing happens. I am really stumped here, there must be some setting somewhere overriding the bios stretch setting but only on my gentoo install.
Please if anyone has any ideas throw em out there cause I'm lost now.

MysticPixel · n00b Joined: 30 Nov 2004 Posts: 16

This is a BIOS issue. At least, it is on my inspiron 700m - you can choose in the BIOS (and in windows through the graphics manager or by control-alt-F11) to stretch or center the display. It's really NOT a software issue, I'm almost completely sure.

sfcfagwdse · n00b Joined: 29 Mar 2004 Posts: 39 Location: Portland, OR

I know it's a bios issue. I set the bios not to stretch the screen and it doesn't until I load up xorg. That's what I'm confused about because booting off the knoppix live cd doesnt stretch the screen either.

ilyawizard · n00b Joined: 03 Nov 2004 Posts: 53

I think it recognizes the size of the screen as the largest resolution you have and then sets the required resolution. So if you have 1280*800 and loading under 1024*768 then it's stretched, but when you load under 1280*800 it's fine. At least that is like in my computer. I just don't use the highest resolution so I didn't specify it.