Re: [AL] Problems with 3.9.35/36 and mingw32

[Mika V. <val...@cc...>]

>Weird because, beginning with 3.9.35 version, Allegro queries the gfx driver
>for the list of supported fullscreen modes and doesn't even try to set up
>any mode that is reported as unavailable.

I guess the card can do it, but the display (TFT panel) can't handle it...

>You probably don't have enough VRAM to set up a DirectX fullscreen
>800x600x16 mode: it requires 800x600x2=960000 bytes plus the overhead due to
>the Windows desktop.

Ok, guess it's time to add support for multiple screen sizes :)

Mika V.
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El dom, 27 de may de 2001, a las 11:29:27 +0200, Eduard Bloch dijo:
> Sure you can (in the main control file), but better get 
> 
> allegro3936_3936-4.diff.gz
> allegro3936_3936-4.dsc
> allegro3936_3936-4_i386.changes
> 
> from incoming.

 I did, but I had to change the Depends ...

 you've put a Depends: xlibs-dev on some packates, but it works
 also with xlib6g-dev (X 3.3.x), so I've added (on my own sources)
 a 
 
 Depends: xlibs-dev | xlib6g-dev 
 
  in order to compile them.

 I've noticed that it does not install /etc/allegro.cfg, and it also
 does not read it, as I can't run any program in console mode having
 the driver on autodetect on allegro.cfg .

 I can't also install allegro-demo as it needs allegro-demo-data 
 (which is not built by the tar.gz).


 An Allegro question: now all my programs open fullscreen. I change
 the video mode with:

 if (set_gfx_mode(GFX_SAFE, 320, 200, 0, 0) != 0)
 {
    set_gfx_mode(GFX_TEXT, 0, 0, 0, 0);
 (bla...)


 How can I set Non-fullscreen videomode?
 Can I change color depth? (I imagine it's impossible, but my spectrum
 emulator can run up to 190 FPS on 8 bpp, but drops to 80 fps on 16bpp,
 as I use internally 8 bpp).

 People does not run usually the desktop at 8 bpp, so changing videomode
 depth would be interesting (quite a lot!).
 
> >  CU and thanks a lot!
> 
> No problem. But the packaging of a big library package makes me sick,
> there is allways something you forget bevore the release.

 Thanks a lot for your efforts and your job!
 CU!
 
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Holà muchachos, I have returned

to continue this topic

>  How can I set Non-fullscreen videomode?
>  Can I change color depth? (I imagine it's impossible, but my spectrum
>  emulator can run up to 190 FPS on 8 bpp, but drops to 80 fps on 16bpp,
>  as I use internally 8 bpp).
>
>  People does not run usually the desktop at 8 bpp, so changing videomode
>  depth would be interesting (quite a lot!).
>

Allegro,Windows and I imagine X were all designed to run in one colour depth
per session.  With any non-fullscreen mode you get what you are given, as
the depth has already been decided for the other apps running.

Is ALT-ENTER a standard key in Linux?

btw I run the desktop at 8 bits all the time (for speed) and 4 bits even
(for lack of vid mem)