xorg and dosbox

[patrick]

A xorg upgrade has caused my dosbox to be unable to
go into full mode, it's always stuck in full aspect mode.
Thought the below command would push everything into
full mode.

xrandr --output LVDS1 --set "scaling mode" Full

Unfortunately the change that takes affect has no effect on the problem,
getting DosBox full in the screen, not full aspect. Still searching
then.

Anyone familiar with this one ?

THX.

patrick

[Joe_Ro...@localhost.invalid]

I just got dosbox. I found that using "xrandr -s <line number>" works
to choose other resolutions. If you alrealdy know how to do this, then
I apologize.

Let me go on...

When I do "xrandr" this is what I get:

vvv
joe@jango:~$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 768, maximum 4096 x 4096
VGA-1 connected 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
285mm x 214mm
1024x768 75.1* 75.0 70.1 60.0
800x600 72.2 75.0 60.3
640x480 72.8 75.0 60.0
720x400 70.1
DVI-D-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
^^^

The first line (starts "1024x768" is line 0) the next is line 1, and so
on. For dosbox I would want to use "640x480". That is on line 2. So
I would do this:

xrandr -s 2

Your original resolution should be on line 0, so do this to go back to
it:

xrandr -s 0

Hope that helps.

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[patrick]

On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 14:19:58 +0000, Joe_Rosevear wrote:

> I just got dosbox. I found that using "xrandr -s <line number>" works
> to choose other resolutions. If you alrealdy know how to do this, then
> I apologize.
>
> Let me go on...
>
> When I do "xrandr" this is what I get:
>
> vvv joe@jango:~$ xrandr Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 768,
> maximum 4096 x 4096 VGA-1 connected 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted
> right x axis y axis)
> 285mm x 214mm
> 1024x768 75.1* 75.0 70.1 60.0 800x600 72.2
> 75.0 60.3 640x480 72.8 75.0 60.0 720x400
> 70.1
> DVI-D-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
> ^^^
>
> The first line (starts "1024x768" is line 0) the next is line 1, and so
> on. For dosbox I would want to use "640x480". That is on line 2. So I
> would do this:
>
> xrandr -s 2
>
> Your original resolution should be on line 0, so do this to go back to
> it:
>
> xrandr -s 0
>
> Hope that helps.

Hi,

That command is great but I don't think it will help DosBox.
With xorg 1.6.5 dosbox went to full mode without adjustment.
With xorg 1.10.x I can get it to full aspect mode but not full mode
with trying many adjustments, meaning it is not fully using
the entire screen as before.

Somewhere something changed in xorg 1.10.x with some default
setting and trying to find out what are the default settings is 90 %
of the problem. Then whatever setting changed could easily be fixed.
This is a gma900 intel driver BTW. I'm pretty convinced some
setting on the driver allowing the vga signal supplied by dosbox
to go into full mode is the problem.

thanks for the response.

Patrick