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    Centered Timings?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by l33t_c0w, Apr 22, 2007.

  1. l33t_c0w

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    I want to run my macbook at 1024x768, with a 1:1 correlation between pixels. The only two options I see available are fixed aspect ratio scaling, which is 4:3 but stretched over the whole screen, so everything is blurred; and stretched, which stretches it to the 16:10 and is even worse. Has anyone done what I want to do successfully?
     
    l33t_c0w, Apr 22, 2007
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    Nope.

    I've never seen that work in windows either.

    You're monitor has to support that, and I don't think most computer monitors do. More likely, it's reserved for HD TVs. I know I was on a forum that dealt with tvs, and they discussed this. And they also said not all monitors supported this feature.
     
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    Sucktastic. (My windows laptop will do this for me :() Thanks anyways.
     
    l33t_c0w, Apr 22, 2007
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    Hey hey. The centered timings are there in Windows on the Macbook. This means the hardware supports it. There must be a way to get OS X to work with it then. This's made my night.
     
    l33t_c0w, Apr 24, 2007
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    You'll have to increase your plist-fu m4d haxx0r ski11z. Google for it, IIRC one of the plists involved is LIbrary/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver.plist, but there's bound to be more. Good luck.
     
    Wooky, Apr 24, 2007
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