Higher res?

Is there a way to trick my laptop into allowing higher res without goddamn screen panning?

or is some sort of non-passable visible pixel limit?

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Because manuals and vendors say so?

An average low end CRT monitor easily does any, or at worst most of the modes I said, and of course, it won't do 1200 lines at 60 Hz, that'd work at 56 Hz at best and it sucks. And like I said, horizontal resolution matters little.