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direct rendering and smxi
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Post # 251578
 direct rendering and smxiI have just run smxi and now have everything slightly vertically elongated. After running
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MEPIS Enthusiast   Joined: Fri Dec 15, 2006 8:07 pm Posts: 7357 Location: Skullcrusher Mountain, Santee, CA USA Has thanked: 322 times Have thanks: 1187 times
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Post # 251590
Usually the Intel driver autodetects the native resolution of an LCD screen--is that what you are using? And if so, do you know its native resolution?
Possibly you were using the vesa driver before smxi, and if it changed to the native, "correct" resolution, things may look squeezed vertically compared to a horizontally obese vesa display. How do perfect circles or squares appear? P.S. I get the vblank error too on my GMA 4500, just ignore it. _________________ Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 14 inch: 4 GB RAM, Intel i5-480 processor, Intel HD graphics and sound, Intel 1000 "n" WiFi, Acer CrystalEye webcam, Hot Keys, suspend, hibernate, KDE openGL effects: all work out of the box with 64-bit MEPIS 11! |
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| Sat Nov 20, 2010 1:38 am |
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Post # 251593
I have just switched back to vesa and although things look normal to my eye, the perfect circle and sqaure are elliptical and rectangular. I will run smxi again later and have a closer look at what is on offer. My native resolution from memory is 1024X768
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MEPIS Enthusiast  Joined: Wed Jul 12, 2006 5:54 am Posts: 9179 Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma U.S.A. Has thanked: 2714 times Have thanks: 574 times
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Post # 251660
The manufacturer will have the native resolution available on the web. _________________ "There is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders." Alan K. Simpson |
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MEPIS Guide   Joined: Wed Jul 12, 2006 4:05 pm Posts: 2215 Location: Pinellas Park, FL Has thanked: 62 times Have thanks: 1118 times
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Post # 251666
And on the web, it says the Acer emachine E727 has a 1366x768 native resolution. Running at 1024x768 should make things look stretched horizontally. Try at 1366x768 and look at square and circular objects on the screen to see if they're true.
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MEPIS Enthusiast Joined: Fri Dec 15, 2006 8:07 pm Posts: 7357 Location: Skullcrusher Mountain, Santee, CA USA Has thanked: 322 times Have thanks: 1187 times
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Post # 251714
Also users with the Intel GMA4500 graphics can skip using smxi and either just edit xorg.conf directly to change "vesa" to "intel", or boot the LiveCD with the boot command
xdrvr=intel This still seems to be needed on the M11 alphas so far. _________________ Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 14 inch: 4 GB RAM, Intel i5-480 processor, Intel HD graphics and sound, Intel 1000 "n" WiFi, Acer CrystalEye webcam, Hot Keys, suspend, hibernate, KDE openGL effects: all work out of the box with 64-bit MEPIS 11! |
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| Sat Nov 20, 2010 5:25 pm |
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| Sat Nov 20, 2010 7:13 pm |
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MEPIS Enthusiast Joined: Wed Jul 12, 2006 5:54 am Posts: 9179 Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma U.S.A. Has thanked: 2714 times Have thanks: 574 times
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Post # 251755
You might try the cheatcode xres=1366x768 see here: http://www.mepis.org/docs/en/index.php?title=Cheatcodes
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MEPIS Enthusiast Joined: Fri Dec 15, 2006 8:07 pm Posts: 7357 Location: Skullcrusher Mountain, Santee, CA USA Has thanked: 322 times Have thanks: 1187 times
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Post # 251782
Odd--usually the vesa driver on a 16:9 screen will instead give you a 1024x768 display, with attendant distortions, plus fonts will look blurry compared to the native resolution that the Intel driver provides. Might be your brain has compensated for the distorted vesa output; give the native display a chance and you should get used to it. _________________ Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 14 inch: 4 GB RAM, Intel i5-480 processor, Intel HD graphics and sound, Intel 1000 "n" WiFi, Acer CrystalEye webcam, Hot Keys, suspend, hibernate, KDE openGL effects: all work out of the box with 64-bit MEPIS 11! |
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