Is there a complete list of supported graphics cards and sound cards?
My CD just crashes right after selecting the text mode during the boot up.
There is no error message, just a reset is performed.
Is there any chance in fixing this?
I'm using a SB Live sound card and a rather old Elsa Winner 2000 AVI graphics card with 2 MB. ScummVM runs fine with it in Windows 98SE using the S3 Vision 968 PCI driver shipped with Windows.
The VESA BIOS does not support resolutions lower than 640x480 with 15, 16 and 32 bit colors modes. Is this a problem?
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well this might be a problem cause scumm uses 230x200 as you know but the standard scaler is advmame3x so this shouldn't really be a problem AND it shouldn't be a problem in text mode for it has nothing to do with vesa as far as i know AND the text mode looks like 640x480 for me but i don't now exactly.
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What generator did you use ? (2.4.21 or 2.6.0-test kernel). ScummLinux is using the VESA Framebuffer display in 640x480 so it should be compatible with almost every card.. (no specific driver). The filter is advmame2x. What do you mean by "text mode" ?.
For the sound cards, 2.4.21 kernel supports all the sound cards supported by OSS (http://www.opensound.com/osshw.html)
and for the 2.6.0 kernel, the sound cards supported by the ALSA project (http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/)
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Well, as we both mentioned it i think i may answer this question:
We mean the mode of linux when just text is displayed on the screen and no real graphics are avaibled. This mode is as far as I know realized by putting the characters to be displayed directly through to the graphic card without using any kind of a driver it just uses something driver like which is very low level and should work with really every graphiccard.
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I tried the 2.6.0 kernel. For some reason it fails to boot my system. I might be a bug in the kernel itself, as the text resolution selector is part of the kernel itself, AFAIK.
Where could I found more information about the kernel?
I have a bootable Knoppix Linux CD using kernel 2.4.20 which runs fine. Does ScummLinux use the same drivers?
I'm using an AMD K6-3 with 450 MHz and I have 320 MB of RAM. I think, this should pretty much enough to run ScummVM.
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Well, seems like there are still many problems with the 2.6 kernel (sound, graphic). I think it is a good idea to just place the 2.4 kernel on the download page, for it runs fine on most systems and is stable.
@logicdeluxe
Well, as you now have to i don't need to say this but try using kernel 2.4
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Is there a complete list of supported graphics cards and sound cards?
My CD just crashes right after selecting the text mode during the boot up.
There is no error message, just a reset is performed.
Is there any chance in fixing this?
I'm using a SB Live sound card and a rather old Elsa Winner 2000 AVI graphics card with 2 MB. ScummVM runs fine with it in Windows 98SE using the S3 Vision 968 PCI driver shipped with Windows.
The VESA BIOS does not support resolutions lower than 640x480 with 15, 16 and 32 bit colors modes. Is this a problem?
well this might be a problem cause scumm uses 230x200 as you know but the standard scaler is advmame3x so this shouldn't really be a problem AND it shouldn't be a problem in text mode for it has nothing to do with vesa as far as i know AND the text mode looks like 640x480 for me but i don't now exactly.
What generator did you use ? (2.4.21 or 2.6.0-test kernel). ScummLinux is using the VESA Framebuffer display in 640x480 so it should be compatible with almost every card.. (no specific driver). The filter is advmame2x. What do you mean by "text mode" ?.
For the sound cards, 2.4.21 kernel supports all the sound cards supported by OSS (http://www.opensound.com/osshw.html)
and for the 2.6.0 kernel, the sound cards supported by the ALSA project (http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/)
Well, as we both mentioned it i think i may answer this question:
We mean the mode of linux when just text is displayed on the screen and no real graphics are avaibled. This mode is as far as I know realized by putting the characters to be displayed directly through to the graphic card without using any kind of a driver it just uses something driver like which is very low level and should work with really every graphiccard.
I tried the 2.6.0 kernel. For some reason it fails to boot my system. I might be a bug in the kernel itself, as the text resolution selector is part of the kernel itself, AFAIK.
Where could I found more information about the kernel?
I have a bootable Knoppix Linux CD using kernel 2.4.20 which runs fine. Does ScummLinux use the same drivers?
I'm using an AMD K6-3 with 450 MHz and I have 320 MB of RAM. I think, this should pretty much enough to run ScummVM.
Well, seems like there are still many problems with the 2.6 kernel (sound, graphic). I think it is a good idea to just place the 2.4 kernel on the download page, for it runs fine on most systems and is stable.
@logicdeluxe
Well, as you now have to i don't need to say this but try using kernel 2.4
Yes, that's what I did for 0.3.1.
logicdeluxe :
ScummLinux uses the linux VESA framebuffer, which need a VESA 2.0 compatible card. Maybe your's is not..