wxga capabilities

Can someone tell me if it's possible for a wxga screen to display 1280x1024? It wouldn't be on one screen, of course, but something where you would scroll the screen to see the unseen portion. I've seen this capability on a lot of desktops but not on a laptop yet. Do the ATI mobile video drivers allow this?

I need the ability to display 1024x768 and 1280x1024. I'm a little wary of using a 1680x1050 screen to display xga, as it'll be pretty small. So I'm hoping that I can display 1280x1024 on a wxga screen instead...

thanks!

 

Why would you want to? I know what you mean and it's always been one of the biggest pains when it comes to needing more space than your monitor could make......

Just not sure why you'd want to do this. If I could understand why you want to do it, maybe you'll teach me something new.

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Justin
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I'm the PM of a satellite design team and we're using various MATLAB scripts to model orbits, thermal profiles, power inputs, etc. One particular MATLAB sim is called "cubesim" and uses a gui written specifically for 1280x1024 display. On my work IBM T42 XGA display the bottom and right portions are chopped off.

I'm also going to be designing my own gui's for displaying telemetry from the satellite. Right now 1024x768 seems a bit cramped for all the things I want to cram into the gui. I still would like to develop an XGA version for people with smaller monitors, but also desire the ability to display an SXGA gui.

hope this answers your question. i prefer the widescreen laptops, which is why i haven't gotten a 1400x1050 model.

 

Yeah, well you can't do what you want to do on say the W3....... The only way you could use that res is if you used it on an external monitor.. and for that you can use basically any res you want.

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Justin
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The simple solution is to get a non-widescreen display. If you are part of this space team, use your available budget and do the right thing by buying the right equipment. I am sorry, but how is this an issue?

Peace!
Sygyzy

 

this "space team" is what i do in my free time. so the laptop is coming from my own budget. the gui/matlab apps are just one use. i mentioned i prefer the widescreen, for other things like having a C IDE open next to a Python IDE. this notebook needs to travel to places like australia to do demos.

anyway, thanks for answering my question. i've seen this capability on desktops so i thought it'd be on laptops, so i could go with a smaller WXGA model like the W3. looks like my options are the 15" SXGA+ and WSXGA screens....

 

Ah, that changes everything. I didn't realize this was a personal project.

Peace!
Sygyzy

 

you could do it if you go with Linux.

X.Org as well as XFree86 do support virtual resolutions and
a lot of Windows apps can be run using WINE (of course you
can not use the C IDE, you'd have to use KDEVELOP instead or
switch to things like java what is good for platform independance anyways)

Cu Huhn

 

if anyone cares, i found out today that you can do this on the Fujitsu N3510. It has an ATI X300 so I would think that any of the ATI x-series cards can do it. Or maybe any recent ATI card given a driver update.

the resolution slider on the fujitsu went all the way up to 1600x1200.

 

You can't do it on Asus' systems... it's most likely a driver issue... something they removed so you could only use the highest res on the screen that it could handle...... since they are making the system and the drivers....... and they know what lcd is on the system.... I'm sure with different drivers you could do what you want.

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Justin
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Sure you can. Just uncheck the box that says 'Hide modes this monitor cannot display' in the 'Monitor' tab of the display properties and all resolutions will be available. Choose one that is higher than the native resolution of the LCD and you'll be in the virtual desktop panning mode.

Distracting as hell for normal use, but useful for the occational program that has a high-res, fixed-sized interface.

 

Just the normal windows settings. The actual virtual desktop panning functionality would be driver dependant, I guess, but it's been working like that for ages. The checkbox is really there to prevent people from screwing up their CRT's. While you used to need explicit support for panning 'way back then' due to this, it 'just woks' on a LCD.

 

Where did I miss that box? That's not in the windows settings....... that's in the ATI settings, correct?

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Justin
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I'm familiar with that.... and looking on at least my W3 that's in front of my.... there is no option to do that... and there isn't an option in the ATI software either.

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Justin
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I have yet to see ANY pc missing that checkbox. It's part of Windows XP/2000. Located in: 'Display Properties' -> 'Settings' -> 'Advanced' -> 'Monitor' -> In the 'Monitor Settings' section, below the refresh rate dropdown menu. At least with any any recent ATI driver, on all the computers I have tried it on (five or six) unchecking this box and setting a higher resolution will turn on a panning 'virtual' desktop on a LCD.

 

Yeah yeah.... oh yeah that does change that. I've actually yet to see a system come with that box checked... but you're right, that takes care of it.

Thanks,
Justin
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