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redss   01-16-2007 at 04:19:00 AM

On my laptop, under display properties->settings, all of the resolutions are 4x3 aspect ratios.

If I hook up a widescreen monitor to my computer, how do I set the resolution to a widescreen aspect ratio?

I have already tried hooking up a 16x9 digital projector to the vga port, which I was hoping would appear to look like a widescreen monitor to windows, but am unable to switch to widescreen resolution.

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mpjesse   01-16-2007 at 06:01:21 AM
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You need to disable dual display. Or in other words you need to stop video from being displayed on your laptop screen.

How old is that thing anyways? Who makes 4:3 laptop displays these days?

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redss   01-16-2007 at 06:12:06 AM
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Its a brand new IBM T60, everybody at our company has a laptop with 4x3 displays.

So you're saying that if I hit the function key combination to turn off the built in laptop panel, then I'll see more screen resolution options?

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mpjesse   01-16-2007 at 06:16:08 AM
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Yes, but you may also have to disable it in video properties. Give it a go.

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outlw6669   01-16-2007 at 06:59:40 AM
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Make shure you have the latest drivers and look in ATI's control pannel.

The laptop you have has a X1400 chip which claims to

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Drive two displays simultaneously with independent resolutions and refresh rates



Sorry as I have not had an ATI card in a while, I don't know exactly where to point you in the control pannel.

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redss   01-17-2007 at 12:04:18 AM
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outlw6669:
What makes you think I have a X1400 graphics chip?
I might be ignorant here... all I know is that in the device manager it says "graphics mobile intel 945GM Express chipset family"

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mpjesse   01-17-2007 at 12:37:08 AM
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he probably looked up your model on lenovo's site and assumed...

sorry to hear u have integrated graphics though. my condolences.

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redss   01-17-2007 at 12:41:48 AM
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Well its a laptop... don't all laptops have integrated graphics?

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mpjesse   01-17-2007 at 12:43:41 AM
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uuhhh... no. the laptop i'm on has a radeon mobility x1800. it's not integrated.... uses the PCI-e mobile slot.

but, a lot of laptops do have integrated.

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redss   01-17-2007 at 12:52:34 AM
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never heard of a PCI e-mobile slot, but I haven't seen too many high end laptops either. Is that like PCMCIA, only a full fledged PCI bus? I'm sure the slot doesn't take standard PCI cards, right?

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postmortemia   01-17-2007 at 01:29:03 AM
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uuhhh... no. the laptop i'm on has a radeon mobility x1800. it's not integrated.... uses the PCI-e mobile slot.

but, a lot of laptops do have integrated.



Yes, that's the one I gave your mom for doing her in rear, as well as silver Samsung 204B.

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mpjesse   01-17-2007 at 06:02:44 AM
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uuhhh... no. the laptop i'm on has a radeon mobility x1800. it's not integrated.... uses the PCI-e mobile slot.

but, a lot of laptops do have integrated.



Yes, that's the one I gave your mom for doing her in rear, as well as silver Samsung 204B.

lol. calling carmack a wanker sure has brought out the flamers.

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outlw6669   01-17-2007 at 02:21:43 PM
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Sorry I googled your laptop and saw that it had the X1400.
Now I feel like an ass :oops:

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redss   01-17-2007 at 02:40:20 PM
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Ok so the bottom line here is that the lack of widescreen aspect resolutions is due to an older version of the graphics card driver, and there is no driver that would come with a widescreen monitor that would fix this right?

i.e. the widescreen resolutions would come from the graphics driver, not a monitor driver?

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