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Hi,
It's a bit of a hack - and has some serious usability problems - but if you want to have increased screen resolution on your Eee under Linux (including the default Xandros install) without installing Windows and then running VMware, here's a little script to do it:
http://www.bleb.org/software/incres.sh [view source]
And a photo of it in action at 960x576:
...and 1280x976:
It works by spawning a VNC server and then using a VNC client back to localhost.
The only two flaws I'm aware of at the moment:
1) Ctrl-Alt-T opens a terminal in the master X session, rather than the one being watched. If launched from a menu, it doesn't render properly.
2)krdc, despite having options to start fullscreen and scaled, seems to ignore the options.
Comments welcome.
Cheers,
Andrew
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would like to see this work. But can't get to your server, nor the pictures.
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I wouldn't mind some more info on this please.
1) How do you choose between the two resolutions?
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causerino wrote:
I wouldn't mind some more info on this please.
1) How do you choose between the two resolutions?
By telling it on the command line -
incres.sh 960x576 [this is the default, so is superfluous]
or
incres.sh 1280x976
Last edited by DeeJay (2008-02-12 4:00:25 am)
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I see 2 issues at the moment... low drawing speed and a little bit blur.
Expect a lot of complain from non-Linux users which doesnt know it is just vnc scaling :-P
Last edited by lazyfai (2008-02-11 9:55:39 am)
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cool! can you post a picture of firefox with a simple webpage to see if the text is readable? thanks!
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hello!
i don't have vncserver and i can't get it from my repositories.
any ideas where i could get it from?
thx a lot!
Peter
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That's a clever solution! It should work on any version of Linux that has an rdc that supports scaled virtual resolutions.
What is the associated speed hit like?
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ahh how doez I install? sorry my only linux experience is writing and compiling C programs in cigwin....
also I'm running advanced desktop mode.
Last edited by tesla120 (2008-02-11 2:55:04 pm)
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How to install and use on the built-in Xandros (either in simple or advanced mode):
1) Enable the standard Xandros repositories. See wiki for details.
2) sudo apt-get install vncserver krdc
3) Download incres.sh to your home directory
4) Open a terminal and do: chmod a+x incres.sh
5) Run ./incres.sh <width>x<height>
6) Click on the fullscreen, scale and unpin toolbar buttons in the resulting window.
Speed is OK for normal use, certainly makes Eclipse a whole lot more usable. Wouldn't watch a video on it (not even tried it to see if it works).
Server problems fixed, sorry for the inconvenience.
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@jaffa: thanks for the instructions.
I've installed and tested it.
If you want to see how it looks like (when running firefox)
I've used 1024x600 as a resolution and made a screenshot.
See http://www.effem.110mb.com/1024x600.png
As you see text is not fully sharp, but definitely readable (although it makes me feel I need to clean my contacts 
)
FM
Last edited by eFfeM (2008-02-11 4:30:11 pm)
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Okay, i did the
sudo apt-get install vncserver krdc
commands, and it downloaded 180mbs of Sh*t, and i dont want my eee bricked, so how can i undo these past steps? to remove the krdc and vncserver? i dont want to backup my xandros, coz i have a lot of info, and i dont remeber howto make advanced mode. Help pleae, im in a stress right now 
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SirWilliux wrote:
Okay, i did the
sudo apt-get install vncserver krdc
commands, and it downloaded 180mbs of Sh*t, and i dont want my eee bricked, so how can i undo these past steps? to remove the krdc and vncserver? i dont want to backup my xandros, coz i have a lot of info, and i dont remeber howto make advanced mode. Help pleae, im in a stress right now
Well the apt-get command has told you it was going to download a lot.
This happens if you have the debian feeds in it (actually this happened to me as well, ended up doing an apt-get -f install).
The debian feeds give a lot of kde stuff.
You might try to remove all the packages you installed. Not sure if that will help.
Or just see if things still work.
For going to advanced mode: this is clearly described in the wiki.
NOTE TO ALL: this is not a straightforward thing. Proceed at own risk and make sure that you know what you are doing.
And be sure to follow gaffa's instruction to the letter.
FM.
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I want to try this but am slightly cautious, is there any risk at all of damage to the screen?
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ok I had it going, then when i restarted it didn't come back.. so i ran the command again and it says it has no server at the given address.... do i have to set up the vnc server again?
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sudo synaptic and find vncserver, krdc and mark for uninstall
OR
sudo apt-get remove vncserver krdc
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billingtonsmythe wrote:
I want to try this but am slightly cautious, is there any risk at all of damage to the screen?
No, the screen is still running at 800x480. This is basically a virtual desktop being scaled, in software, to fit that resolution.
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Thanks, I've tried this out at 1024x600 but it's a bit slow really, probably just gonna stick to the default res.
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Thanks, Jaffa. I tried it at several resolutions. I will leave the vncserver installed in case I want to use it at some point, but for now I plan to use the standard res. I've gotten accustomed to working my around screen size issues.
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Hello from 960x576....
any way could this be automatically run at startup so you don't have to run the script every time?
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eFfeMSee [url wrote:
http://www.effem.110mb.com/1024x600.png[/url]
As you see text is not fully sharp, but definitely readable (although it makes me feel I need to clean my contacts
FM
I got a 403 error tried to view the shot.
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i would like to have this in eeeXubuntu but i seem to be to stupid to get the vncserver running properly
if anyone can make this work for eeeXubuntu post instructions please!
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after installing vnc server and krdc, in my ubuntu/gnome system. This does not work. Is it because I don't have all the kde components or something? my terminal output looks like this:
[: 24: ==: unexpected operator
Couldn't open RGB_DB '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb'
11/02/08 18:22:04 Xvnc version 3.3.7 - built May 24 2007 12:47:11
11/02/08 18:22:04 Copyright (C) 2002-2003 RealVNC Ltd.
11/02/08 18:22:04 Copyright (C) 1994-2000 AT&T Laboratories Cambridge.
11/02/08 18:22:04 All Rights Reserved.
11/02/08 18:22:04 See http://www.realvnc.com for information on VNC
11/02/08 18:22:04 Desktop name 'x11' (mee-EEE:1)
11/02/08 18:22:04 Protocol version supported 3.3
11/02/08 18:22:04 Listening for VNC connections on TCP port 5901
Font directory '/usr/share/fonts/X11/Speedo/' not found - ignoring
kbuildsycoca running...
Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-mee" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-mee" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-mee" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-mee" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
QWidget::setMaximumSize: (unnamed/KRDC) Negative sizes (-1,31) are not possible
krdc: ConnectToTcpAddr: connect: Connection refused
Unable to connect to VNC server
Launched ok, pid = 5983
ShmCleanup called
current depth: 0
QWidget::setMaximumSize: (unnamed/KRDC) Negative sizes (-1,31) are not possible
krdc: ConnectToTcpAddr: connect: Connection refused
Unable to connect to VNC server
ShmCleanup called
Terminated
mee@mee-EEE:~$
mee@mee-EEE:~$ kill: 41: No such process
ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 5980, errno = 0
mee@mee-EEE:~$
Any help?
im not a linux expert, i just started using ubuntu when i got my eee.
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I also can't get it working with eeexubuntu, anyone got a fix?
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Why XP on EeePC can have 1024x768 with ASUS's drivers but no such luck on Xandros? They seem to supply driver source and nobody hacked it?
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