Re: [fuse-emulator-devel] fuse 1.5.0 SDL - fullscreen mode invalid for my monitor

[Phil R. <phi...@ti...>]

On Sun, 4 Feb 2018 19:42:15 +0000
Phil Reynolds <phi...@ti...> wrote:

> On Sun, 4 Feb 2018 15:25:47 +0100
> Szász Gergely <sz...@hu...> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 10:23:26PM +0000, Phil Reynolds wrote:  
> > > On Fri, 2 Feb 2018 21:26:45 +0000
> > > Phil Reynolds <phi...@ti...> wrote:
> > >     
> > > > On Fri, 2 Feb 2018 21:40:29 +0100
> > > > Szász Gergely <sz...@hu...> wrote:
> > > >     
> > > > > The problem maybe in the driver/X11 config, because Fuse use
> > > > > the standard SDL interface to select and switch to 'best'
> > > > > video mode for fullscreen. Hmm... the selected mode height is
> > > > > ~1440 pixel? (11800/75 -> 1490).      
> > > > 
> > > > Exactly half that - 720. 960x720 causes those values to appear.
> > > > It is one of five modes that don't work at all. There are others
> > > > that are poor, but only five that fail.
> > > >      
> > > > > BTW: you can add "out of range" (and of course working) modes
> > > > > to the "system" by xrandr and (at least some years ago) in the
> > > > > X11 config file /etc/X11/xorg.conf ... And you can try to
> > > > > remove the suspicious mode(s) with xrandr - i think after that
> > > > > SDL (Fuse) cannot find it...      
> > > > 
> > > > Just trying to work out how to remove them...    
> > > 
> > > Not found any way yet to remove them, or make it prefer supported
> > > rates rather than unsupported ones... any help would be
> > > appreciated.    
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I try to manage it through xorg.conf but failed... Xorg too
> > clever...
> > 
> > But maybe you will more lucky. Here is the relevant part of my test
> > xorg.conf. If it worked, than it disable the automatic mode
> > detection (IgnoreEDID and UseEdidFreq) and add three new mode. The
> > problem is that: old modes are exist too :-( The screen section
> > totally ignored by X (so i commented out).
> > 
> > #Section "Screen"
> > #    Identifier    "Default Screen"
> > #    Monitor        "Configured Monitor"
> > #    Device        "Configured Video Device"
> > #    DefaultDepth    24
> > #    SubSection "Display"
> > #        Depth    24
> > #        Modes     "1280x1024" "800x600" "640x480"
> > #    EndSubSection
> > #EndSection 
> > 
> > Section "Monitor"
> >     Identifier  "VGA1"
> >     HorizSync    30.0 - 83.0
> >     VertRefresh  56.0 - 75.0
> >     Option      "IgnoreEDID" "true"
> >     Option      "UseEdidFreqs" "false"
> >     Option "DefaultModes" "false"
> >         Option  "ModeDebug" "True"
> >     Modeline "640x480_60.00" 23.86 640 656 720 800 480 481 484 497
> > -HSync +Vsync
> > 
> > # 800x600 @ 75.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 47.02 kHz; pclk: 48.91 MHz
> >     Modeline "800x600_75.00" 48.91 800 840 920 1040 600 601 604 627
> > -HSync +Vsync
> > 
> > # 1024x768 @ 75.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 60.15 kHz; pclk: 81.80 MHz
> >     Modeline "1024x768_75.00" 81.80 1024 1080 1192 1360 768 769 772
> > 802 -HSync +Vsync EndSection
> > 
> > So, i create a patch in order to the users can force a mode for
> > fullscreen: https://sourceforge.net/p/fuse-emulator/patches/399  
> 
> If you could choose by the vsync rate too, it might be good.
> 

I've tried this patch - it leaves me with non-full "full screen"
modes. I may have to see if I can somehow compose a suitable xorg.conf
anyway.


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