On 6/22/08, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi All, > > Is the intel driver still restricted to a maximum resolution of 2048x2048? > > If so is it possible to be able to reconfigure the max res while still > keeping in the 4 million or so pixels to make use of some of the > bigger screens now days. EG I have a HP laptop with a screen res of > 1680x1050, work has just got us all Dell 1680x1050 22inch monitors as > they're now so cheap but using xrandr I can't get it to run both so > I'm assuming it must be this restriction kicking in. Wondering whether > you can use a config option to specify a random combination 3320x1050 > for eg which would still come in under the mem allocation that > 2048x2048 does. This is no memory limitation, just an inability to handle more than 11 bits of coordinate resolution somewhere in the 3d engine iirc. A possible solution would be to use 2 independent framebuffers, and i'm quite sure it's on someone's todo list to allow this. But today you'll have to live with this limitation as far as i know. > > I'm using Fedora 9 which is running xserver 1.4.99.902-3.20080612.fc9 > and intel driver 2.2.1. Not sure if its been resolved in the later > 2.3.x series. > > Contoller is Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express > Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) > > Cheers, > Peter > _______________________________________________ > xorg mailing list > xorg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg > _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg