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From: Ryan Rubley (rubleyr@csis.gvsu.edu)
Date: Tue 30 Jan 2001 - 17:59:07 IST


I build the reg tables for some other useful Mode-X modes and if Matan
wants to include them later on, he can, if not, oh well, as long as
400x300 works for quake ;)



On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Russell Marks wrote:

> Matan Ziv-Av <matan@svgalib.org> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Russell Marks wrote:
> >
>     [Ryan Rubley <rubleyr@csis.gvsu.edu> 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).
>
> Since you're replying to me, I should probably point out that I wasn't
> particularly intending to add 320x480 mode-X myself :-), I just
> thought it seemed like a good idea if we were adding other such modes.
>
> (It seems I included a patch to add such a mode to svgalib [1] with a
> very early zgv, but I can't seem to find that now. Maybe I changed my
> mind about including it, and forgot to update the change log. Oh
> well.)
>
> -Rus.
>
> [1] Or perhaps VGAlib. It was a *long* time ago. :-)
>
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