wine users - Jun 2006 - question regarding sub 640x480 resolutions

Hi all,

Recently I was trying Wine with some old games, and I found that Wine
was exiting because it couldn't set my screen's resolution to 320x240
(or 320x200). After fiddling with xorg.conf for half an hour, I
concluded that my laptop's LCD screen wasn't capable of that resolution.
I was able to get Wine to work using the umanaged desktop setting and a
virtual desktop of the exact size that the game was requesting, but
obviously that was unusable. Is this a known problem, and is there any
way to work around it? A simple hack would be to simply double or triple
the original game's resolution, that would be fine with me. (Maybe
there's a setting somewhere and I missed it)

Thanks in advance!

altkai@ml1.net wrote:
> I was able to get Wine to work using the umanaged desktop setting and a
> virtual desktop of the exact size that the game was requesting, but
> obviously that was unusable. Is this a known problem, and is there any
By unusable you mean the window was too small?
> way to work around it? A simple hack would be to simply double or triple
> the original game's resolution, that would be fine with me. (Maybe
> there's a setting somewhere and I missed it)
Wine doesn't do any resolution scaling or the like. However, you can do
the following:
Set you  LCD to the lowest resolution it will go (640x480 should be
available). Make sure the LCD uses scaling to cover the whole screen.
Play. 320x240 should now appear much larger.

Daniel