Proportional 4:3 diisplay on Widescreen laptop

[Val]

I often use my widescreen laptop with a projector that demands the screen
be set to 4:3 standard format (1024x768, for example). This of course then
give me a stretched display on the tablet's widescreen, which makes my
writing compressed on the projected image, and hard to draw proper squares
or circles.

The laptop has ATI Mobility Radeon x600 graphics, running XP Pro Tablet
version.

Somewhere I came across a machine that when the widescreen display was set
to a 4:3 format, it kept the display proportional by centering the display
area on the screen, with black bars along each side.

Anyone have any ideas how to get this capability?

tia,
Val

 

[bud]

I often use my widescreen laptop with a projector that demands the screen
be set to 4:3 standard format (1024x768, for example). This of course then
give me a stretched display on the tablet's widescreen, which makes my
writing compressed on the projected image, and hard to draw proper squares
or circles.

The laptop has ATI Mobility Radeon x600 graphics, running XP Pro Tablet
version.

Somewhere I came across a machine that when the widescreen display was set
to a 4:3 format, it kept the display proportional by centering the display
area on the screen, with black bars along each side.

Anyone have any ideas how to get this capability?

tia,
Val

Not sure if it is what you are looking for but on my own I have the ati
catalyst control center installed. In it under Digital Panel Properties
there is a setting named attributes. In there is a option to use centered
timings. That centers everything and leaves black bars around it. It doesn't
say it is 4:3 but it looks like it may be.

 

[Val]

Not sure if it is what you are looking for but on my own I have the ati
catalyst control center installed. In it under Digital Panel Properties
there is a setting named attributes. In there is a option to use centered
timings. That centers everything and leaves black bars around it. It
doesn't
say it is 4:3 but it looks like it may be.

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Ah, Digital, as in you're using a DVI display? That option is not present
on the laptop nor on a desktop I have with ATI card, all of which use analog
(VGA) connections. The only related setting is to preserve the widescreen
format on a standard sized monitor (which I assume would put horizontal bars
top and bottom, like a widescreen DVD movie on a standard TV. No help.)
Thanks
Val