Broken Laptop Screen

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tugui

Beginner

Posts: 2

Monday, March 22nd 2004, 3:55pm

Broken Laptop Screen

I own a laptop with the lower part of the screen broken (200 pixels aproximately). Could it be possible to configure KDE (or maybe X) to lower it´s default resolution from 1024x768 to 1024x568 (or something similar)?.
The distro is Knnopix 3.3 (Quantian)

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ZenIT

Beginner

Posts: 3

Wednesday, March 24th 2004, 2:06pm

Even if you lower the resolution it will resize the desktop to fill out the whole laptop screen, so I don't see how that would help.

What I guess you're fetching for is to lower the resolution without resizing it to fill out the sreen, and then move it up so it lays above the damaged area. I don't think you can do that.

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hlwerschner

Beginner

Posts: 2

Wednesday, March 24th 2004, 2:44pm

Just a silly question: cant you decrease the # of "display" lines with increasing the vsync time in parallel to keep the sum of both constant but "making a smaller vertical visible part of the screen". Should take some calculations but perhaps works?

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tugui

Beginner

Posts: 2

Wednesday, March 24th 2004, 7:27pm

Quoted from ""hlwerschner""

Just a silly question: cant you decrease the # of "display" lines with increasing the vsync time in parallel to keep the sum of both constant but "making a smaller vertical visible part of the screen". Should take some calculations but perhaps works?

Thank you for your help. I am working on it.

Someone told about xfce who has the abbility to reduce it´s screen size.
To reduce the size of the text terminal I have been recommended the framebuffer driver. Have you ever used it?

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