For some unfathomable reason the 7" touchscreen has rectangular pixels.
I can't imagine why anyone thought this was a good idea. It makes it useless as a device that has to display an image of anything unless you like distorted images.
Is it possible correct by scaling the video output from the Pi?
Daniele
I am almost certain it is, but I haven't a clue what the magic spell would be.
I'd imagine deep in the bowels of xorg.conf, is away of telling it that the display is bent.
Mmm. After a few minutes probing, it looks like there is a 'Displaysize' directive in Xorg.conf that takes two parameters - the X and Y pixels per inch.
Edit (or create) /etc/X11/xorg.conf and put in this
Section "Monitor" Identifier "Touchscreen" VendorName "Wombatronic Industries" ModelName "Gargleblaster 8000" HorizSync 30 - 50 VertRefresh 60 DisplaySize 650 406 EndSection
and play around with the numbers if it makes a difference. Obviously you will have top reboot the x server between changes
If that doesn't work, there is a program called xrandr that can be used to interrogate and set parameters
But the poster there ended up having to use a startup script to invoke it., because he never found a way to make the changes permanent.
I am now off firmly outside my sphere of competence, so I will sign off.
Good luck.
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I've used xrandr to pan around the pokey display on a eeepc. Yup it goes in a startup script to set the desired resolution.
No, there doesn't seem to be a "save settings" option.
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