[uae] Re: 8.28 and linux framebuffer

  • From: Richard Drummond <evilrich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: uae@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 23:30:02 -0400

Hi Don

On Thursday 18 August 2005 06:38 pm, Don Venhaus wrote:
> I decided to play around with the linux framebuffer because of a comment in
> CHANGES, and discovered a small problem.  If there's no exact match in
> resolution, 8.28 now always goes to the largest rather than the nearest
> that's large enough. The reason seems to be that the modes are returned in
> largest to smallest order. So I made a small change to sdlgfx. In the
> routine "find_best_mode"...

You're quite correct. Well spotted.

> BTW, two other things ( maybe SDLs problem). If there is no resolution
> change it looks like uae didn't come up. But if I switch consoles ( Alt-F2,
> then back with Alt-F1) it's there.

I don't quite understand you there.

> Also, with 8-bit mode, colors are wacky. 

Define 'wacky'? ;-)

Cheers,
Rich

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