Re: [Raine-dev] Minor bug: resolution switching

[Vincent K. <Vin...@ul...>]

On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Emmanuel Anne wrote:

EA> On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Vincent Kieffer wrote:
EA>
EA> > Perhaps an example will be more understandable:
EA> > When I first run "raine", it starts in fullscreen in 320x240.
EA>
EA> That's the most weird point : are you SURE that it is really
EA> 320x240???

Yes. I'm sure. Raine tells it to me. It displays "320x240 DGA2, 8bit".

As suggested in the xmame documentation, I added the modelines from
the following site in my XF86Config-4 file:

	http://victoria.tc.ca/~wi534/modelines

Then, I added

Modes	    "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" "512x384" "400x300" "320x240"

in the "Screen" section so that these modes are availables to DGA2.

EA> Here is how mode switching works in DGA2 : the list of available modes
EA> is build when raine starts by asking to the X server.
EA> Then this list is used only the first time you load a game, or when
EA> you change the res manually from the video mode selection dlg.
EA> When you start raine, it tries to switch to the res it finds in its
EA> rainex.cfg. If 320x240 was in rainex.cfg then it tries it. But if this
EA> mode is not in the list of supported modes, it should fail, and it
EA> should revert to a safer mode.

Indeed. I tried once to put 320x200 into the rainex.cfg to see what would
happen ... and raine switched to 320x240 ... which is the closest
supported resolution.

EA> Anyway, I can't test it here as I said, but I am almost certain that
EA> it works for me.

As I said before, the automatic resolution switching fails only with
320x240 (and only if you are using release 0.31a). With higher resolutions
(400x300, 320x240, etc.), the problem does not occur.

So, if you have not 320x240 in your XF86Config and if you've always run
pbobble3 in 360x256 ... I think it's normal you didn't encounter the
problem.

-Vincent

PS: By the way, the following url is also very usefull to generate other
modelines.
I used it to add "non square pixels" resolutions like 640x512 (these resolutions
are usefull with UAE the amiga emulator).

	http://www-sop.inria.fr/cgi-bin/koala/nph-colas-modelines