[GRLUG] Some pixel stuff.

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Sat, 2012-11-24 at 13:24 -0500, Bob Kline wrote:
> Moving along, my desktop, an HP 
> Pavilion a6750f, contains an ATI
> Radeon HD 3200 display card.  On
> a monitor capable of 2560x1600, I'm
> currently using the VGA output of the
> card to get 2048 x 1280.  Not chopped
> liver, but also not the 2560x1600 DVI
> mode I'm looking for.  

You want your maximum accelerated display size to be larger than the one
you are using.

Also if your card supports multiple outputs you can use that capacity
that way.

> I can back off the size in the "Display and 
> Monitor" area of the System Settings menu, 
> and at some point the text looks OK, but the 
> screen resolution is back down to 1280 x 800, 
> or thereabouts.

Most modern displays have a 'true' resolution.  The display will always
look best at that resolution;  everything else involves scaling, and
will look worse the further in either direction you go.