From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JTlH8-00050f-Ld for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:54:18 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 67D13E0316; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:54:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from creativecommunications.com (creativecommunications.com [65.17.124.162]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51E10E0316 for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:54:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.178] (unknown [192.168.1.178]) by creativecommunications.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1494068C011 for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:54:17 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <47C33908.1010807@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:54:16 -0600 From: Andrew Gaffney User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071228) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-catalyst@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-catalyst@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-catalyst@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Req: non-standard lcd displays References: <1203976187.10423.24.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1203976187.10423.24.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 7dfdc936-1465-4569-a1b6-d2e3782d42f9 X-Archives-Hash: 598e3b9853b88f224ad6e5ea48580d6b Pongracz Istvan wrote: > Hi, > > I use catalyst to create customized livecd-s with preinstalled X, > database and web servers to demonstrate open source applications to the > public, usually non-technical people. > > Some of them use laptops and/or non standard LCD displays (1280x800, > 1400x900 etc.). > > AFAIK catalyst uses the x11-misc/mkxf86config tool to detect and setup > the X. Catalyst doesn't use anything. You are specifying mkxf86config in your spec, and it's getting run automatically by autoconfig (part of livecd-tools). You are free to use something else. > The main problem is, it cannot setup the dimension properly and the > display shows an ugly, stretched image, which is not really looks good > on a presentation. > > Example: the X uses 1024x768 on a 1280x800 display. > The result is a working, but ugly X. > > My question, is that possible to improve it? Do you have a patch? > I read that, the author of mkxf86 knows this issue and he/she is open to > improve it, but I do not know his mail :) > He wrote, this is hard-wired to make it cross-compatible. > > Anyway, what about that to look into ubuntu/mandriva, how they solved > this issue? > I know, for example the i915 chipset has a problem, which needs a bios > patch to get it work (it is a crap, I have this on my laptop). > > I'm pretty sure, this is not a trivial task, but it would be really > good :) If you're building this CD for a specific computer, use livecd/root_overlay to put a custom pre-made xorg.conf on the CD and remove mkxf86config from the package list. This will "solve" your problem. -- Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer Catalyst/Installer + x86 release coordinator -- gentoo-catalyst@lists.gentoo.org mailing list