make display map larger than max resolution?

[Parmenides]

Is it possible to go beyond the max resolution ..... Of course you can't go past a monitor's pixel limit.... but what I'm asking is different. Can you setup your screen so that you can scroll around in the display? So, say, you're limit is 1280x960 pixels. Could you, double that to 2560x1920, where you must move the mouse to the limits to swim around to different areas of your display?

 

[pawstar]

A great reason to switch to linux

Section "Screen"
Identifier "blah"
Device "blah"
Monitor "blah"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Modes "1280x960"
Virtual 2560 1920
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

 

[Jaa-Yoo]

Ive seen that done a couple years back. It was done with an ATI card and was a feature found somewhere in ATIs control panel. I dont know if nvidia ever had (or has) that feature... will have to check when im home.

 

[Jinto]

I remember accidentally getting something like that on my old Dell C400 with integrated Intel Extreme Graphics. So it is definitely possible in Windows though dependent on whether the driver lets you or not.