Re: C&T 65550 and SDL

On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 06:30:58PM -0500, Ryan Underwood wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to run a SDL application called prboom on the console of my
> Toshiba Tecra 500CDT.  It has a PCI chips 65550 chip in it.  When the
> game appears on the screen, it is stretched vertically so that only half
> of the display is actually viewable.  There is also spurious flickering
> and such.
> 
> Does anyone know if this is the problem of svgalib or of SDL?  Also,
> does it have anything to do with the laptop's built-in "text stretch"
> mode for VGA text at the console?
> 
> -- 
> Ryan Underwood, <[email protected]>

Seems to be VESA related. That would mean its an svgalib problem. Did you
try squake (which is closed source but uses svgalib directly instead of going
thru SDL)?

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