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incorrect desktop screen size

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curaga:
It allows giving an exact resolution on drivers capable of such. The vesa driver (Xvesa) is not, it can only use resolutions supported by the bios. If you gave a custom resolution, it would pick the closest one to that from the bios's list.

mitchell:
What's puzzling, this is on a laptop. Surely the bios is reporting the correct aspect ratio. 

Juanito:
what graphics hardware does your machine have?

Note also that you could try Xfbdev with a suitable boot code (see the wiki).

curaga:
No, most laptops do not have correct resolutions in their vesa bios, even though you'd expect that.

mitchell:
Screen Size: 12.10 "; Display Screen Type: Active Matrix TFT Color LCD; Aspect Ratio: 16:10; Screen Mode: WXGA;
Screen Resolution: 1280 x 800; Graphics Controller Manufacturer: Intel; Graphics Controller Model: GMA X3100;
Graphics Memory Capacity: Up to 384 MB; Graphics Memory Technology: DDR2 SDRAM; Graphics Memory

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