From: becka@rz.uni-duesseldorf.de
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 22:12:25 +0200 (MEST)

Re: kgicon troubles - mode switching (and more)

Hi !

> > > Done.  ggi-warp works now kinda--not full screen, it's on the left half
> > > of the screen scrunched like it's running at 640x200 and only using half
> > > the screen...  WEIRD.  It ran fine before I added my monitor setting,
> > > should I add the VGA timings to the monitor file and see what that does?
> > Oh - wait ... Are you using the VGA driver ? This one has the bug to
> > falsely acknowledge and set 640xsomething[P8/8], which is actually
> > impossible and results in programming 320x???#640x???[P8/8], which is
> > obviously wrong.
> No, matrox millennium driver.

Oh - then try adding the VGA timings. It might be that you are kind of
surprising your monitor with a very high refresh very low-linenum mode.

> > > However, startx -- -modes 800x600[C16/16] does not.  It runs without
> > > them, the color palette is screwed naturally in 640x480.  Attached is a
> > > GGI_DEBUG=255 version of the startx command.
> > ??? That can't be the VGA driver, then ... ? You know C16/16 means 16 bit
> > colors i.e. 65536 colors, 5red 6green 5blue ?

Hmm - try setting the modes argument in () like -modes "(800x600[C16/16])",
due to the function used to parse it.

> No offense to those working on ggv and peggy, but they're not really that
> far along compared to zgv which supports damned near everything and qiv
> which supports everything imlib does and has a nicer interface than qiv.

You mean yuo lack support for some file types ? Or is it rather features
like thumbnails and stuff ?

I only use it as a simple graphics plugin for mc, so I don't care much about
that ...

> When I get xggi working properly I'll see about playing with the code for
> those a bit and trying to add some stuff to them.  =>

Great ! TNX.

CU, Andy

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= Andreas Beck                    |  Email :  <andreas.beck@ggi-project.org> =