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I need this because my dell notebook video card is only not freezing if I use nomodeset on grub.
But then, I am limited to 4:3 resolutions (right?).
So, I am looking for a way to not stretch the screen image (1024x768) on the full resolution (1920x1080) monitor.
I wanted to let the 1024x768 (or 1440x1080) be in the middle of the screen (with a black margin on each side), not stretching!
I cant find a way to command xrandr to do that, I tried many things on the --output and --pos but nothing help to accomplish that.

Even better would be if there was some way to tell VESA to use 1920x1080 directly tho.

related:
Normal HD on Ultra Wide Monitor without Stretching Pixels

wont work:
https://askubuntu.com/a/614242/46437
https://superuser.com/a/1245757/157532 (for 2 monitors, not my case)
https://superuser.com/a/485165/157532 :(
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Aquarius Power
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  • nvidia has a viewportout thing like `nvidia-settings -a CurrentMetaMode="HDMI-0: 1920x1080 {viewportout=1850x1040+35+19}"` https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=342636, but the notebook is intel video card – Aquarius Power Sep 28 '21 at 05:28
  • Duplicate of https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/644634/normal-hd-on-ultra-wide-monitor-without-stretching-pixels ? – sancho.s ReinstateMonicaCellio Sep 28 '21 at 06:06
  • https://askubuntu.com/a/1316838/226614 and other answers – sancho.s ReinstateMonicaCellio Sep 28 '21 at 06:14
  • I thought I could make a better question (thats why I said it is just related) as that one got no answers and was missing several things I wanted to talk about. Also I ask about a direct VESA option, and I dismiss stuff about 2 monitors that is what everyone else seems to want to talk about. I still need to test the scaling and panning possibilities to know if that second link answers it, I cant use the notebook right now. – Aquarius Power Sep 29 '21 at 05:10
  • Stretching lower resolutions is typically a feature of the monitor – Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen Oct 26 '21 at 16:16

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