Nvidia X11 driver and 'Virtual' screen sizes

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Can anyone tell me if they have managed to use Hardy Heron with the Nvidia driver for X11? I need to set up a virtual screen size so I have plenty of room to move about vertically.

Are the font sizes computed correctly as well, when using the virtual keyword in xorg.conf?

Here is a snippet from my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file:

This gives me a virtual screen size that is around 2.5 times the height of my display's actual physical height. So I have plent of room to open applications without them overlapping each other.

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Virtual 800 1800
EndSubSection
EndSection

TIA

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Re: Nvidia X11 driver and 'Virtual' screen sizes

If you're using X11 from a Kubuntu version earlier than 8.04, then as far as I know there were no big changes introduced in 8.04, so you should be save to install or upgrade to 8.04.1.

The story for 8.10 is different -- a new version of X.org is in 8.10 and it introduces a number of challenges, especially for folks using some of the older proprietary drivers. So you would be well advised to experiment thoroughly in Live CD mode, and make sure your display requirements will be met, before installing 8.10.