I often use my widescreen laptop with a projector that demands the screen

be set to 4:3 standard format (1024x768, for example). This of course then

give me a stretched display on the tablet's widescreen, which makes my

writing compressed on the projected image, and hard to draw proper squares

or circles.

 

The laptop has ATI Mobility Radeon x600 graphics, running XP Pro Tablet

version.

 

Somewhere I came across a machine that when the widescreen display was set

to a 4:3 format, it kept the display proportional by centering the display

area on the screen, with black bars along each side.

 

Anyone have any ideas how to get this capability?

 

tia,

Val

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> I often use my widescreen laptop with a projector that demands the screen

> be set to 4:3 standard format (1024x768, for example). This of course then

> give me a stretched display on the tablet's widescreen, which makes my

> writing compressed on the projected image, and hard to draw proper squares

> or circles.

>

> The laptop has ATI Mobility Radeon x600 graphics, running XP Pro Tablet

> version.

>

> Somewhere I came across a machine that when the widescreen display was set

> to a 4:3 format, it kept the display proportional by centering the display

> area on the screen, with black bars along each side.

>

> Anyone have any ideas how to get this capability?

>

> tia,

> Val

>

 

Not sure if it is what you are looking for but on my own I have the ati

catalyst control center installed. In it under Digital Panel Properties

there is a setting named attributes. In there is a option to use centered

timings. That centers everything and leaves black bars around it. It doesn't

say it is 4:3 but it looks like it may be.

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> "Val" <vmanes@NOSPAMrap.midco.net> wrote in message

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>> I often use my widescreen laptop with a projector that demands the screen

>> be set to 4:3 standard format (1024x768, for example). This of course

>> then

>> give me a stretched display on the tablet's widescreen, which makes my

>> writing compressed on the projected image, and hard to draw proper

>> squares

>> or circles.

>>

>> The laptop has ATI Mobility Radeon x600 graphics, running XP Pro Tablet

>> version.

>>

>> Somewhere I came across a machine that when the widescreen display was

>> set

>> to a 4:3 format, it kept the display proportional by centering the

>> display

>> area on the screen, with black bars along each side.

>>

>> Anyone have any ideas how to get this capability?

>>

>> tia,

>> Val

>>

>

> Not sure if it is what you are looking for but on my own I have the ati

> catalyst control center installed. In it under Digital Panel Properties

> there is a setting named attributes. In there is a option to use centered

> timings. That centers everything and leaves black bars around it. It

> doesn't

> say it is 4:3 but it looks like it may be.

>

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Ah, Digital, as in you're using a DVI display? That option is not present

on the laptop nor on a desktop I have with ATI card, all of which use analog

(VGA) connections. The only related setting is to preserve the widescreen

format on a standard sized monitor (which I assume would put horizontal bars

top and bottom, like a widescreen DVD movie on a standard TV. No help.)

Thanks

Val