From: becka@rz.uni-duesseldorf.de
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 11:07:41 +0200 (MET DST)

Re: Problems with a S3 Card

> screenmode changed. Then I tried some of the demos. Some
> didn't work but quitted with this error:
> 
> /home/road/ggi/lib/libggi/demos/# ./demo
> Trying mode -1x-1#-1x-1 D-1x-1 F 1 [GT_AUTO]
> Suggested mode -1x-1#-1x-1 D-1x-1 F 1 [GT_AUTO]
> libggi: Failed to set requested mode

This is due to the VGA driver not handling mode-hinting AKA auto-mode-
selection yet.

Try ./demo 320x200#320x200[8]

The working demos explicitly request a certain mode.

You can set the above string into the envvar LIBGGI_DEFMODE to set that
as a default for programs that use GGI_AUTO.

CU,Andy

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