[ut2003io] Refresh rate changing

Josh McKinney forming at charter.net
Sat Mar 29 23:02:00 EST 2003


On approximately Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 11:42:36AM -0600, Matthew Arnold wrote:
> Matthew Arnold wrote:
> 
> >Here's what was in the XFree86 log when it was trying to change the 
> >resolution. I never looked at this before since it wasn't an issue. My 
> >desktop is at 1024x768 and I play at 800x600:
> >
> >SwitchToMode - scrn: 0 clock: 50000
> >               hdsp: 800 hbeg: 856 hend: 976 httl: 1040
> >               vdsp: 600 vbeg: 637 vend: 643 vttl: 666 flags: 5
<snip>
> >
> >My stats:
> >Mandrake 9.1 (kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk, glibc 2.3.1-10)
> >GeForce 3 Ti200 (NVIDIA 4191 drivers)
> >512M PC2100
> >SB Audigy with OSS drivers
> 
> I'm beginning to suspect that this is in fact a bug in SDL. Quake III and
> RtCW can change resolution to 800x600 from my desktop 1024x768 without any
> problems. Here's what my XFree86 log says when I try to run RtCW at 800x600:
> 
> SwitchToMode - scrn: 0 clock: 56300
>                hdsp: 800 hbeg: 832 hend: 896 httl: 1048
>                vdsp: 600 vbeg: 601 vend: 604 vttl: 631 flags: 5
<snip>
> 
> Quite some difference. People are running into the same problem with the
> NWN beta which also uses SDL. Does SDL not like XFree86 4.3?
> 
> Matt
> 

I am seeing the same thing here with Debian Unstable and XFree86 4.3.  I am
pretty sure that it didn't happen before I upgrade X so that is probably what is
going on.

Josh



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