Re: modex/rage128

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From: Matan Ziv-Av (matan@svgalib.org)
Date: Tue 30 Jan 2001 - 02:05:17 IST


On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Russell Marks wrote:

> > I just now put together a quicky 400x300x256 mode-X driver that works
> > great with Quake2, and would like to submit this to svgalib, however it
> > would require two tiny changes to each existing driver (where they check
> > for <640x480x256||hercules mode to pass thru to the vga driver)
> 
> Just a thought - if Matan gives the go-ahead for new mode-X modes, can
> I put a word in for 320x480? It'd be handy when you're stuck with
> generic VGA, and just the otherday someone mailed me wondering why
> pictures were vertically stretched in zgv for them (due to 360x480's
> funny aspect ratio).

No problem, just send to me a patch (which needs to fix all drivers). 
If you want to make it easy in the future to add such modes maybe it is
better to replace all "<640x480x256||hercules" checks with some
IS_STANDARD_VGA_MODE macro.


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Matan Ziv-Av.                         matan@svgalib.org


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