snes9x fullscreen in KnoppMyth w/ PVR-x50, was: [mythtv-users] mythgame snes9x PVR-350 tvout

[Maverick]

Yah, snes9x needs DGA to do full screen. Damn. I would definitely like
to test out DGA support if it ever gets implemented. Thanks for the
reply!


On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 09:46:11 +0000 (GMT), John Harvey
<john.p.harvey at btinternet.com> wrote:
> The 350 X driver does not have DGA support. I suspect
> there is a bug in snes9x depending on that code or not
> correctly working round it not being there.
> 
> At some point we could add it but it's not high on my
> list at the moment.
> 
> John
> 
>  --- Maverick <mavantix at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > You can edit the snes9x options by hitting "i"
> > when "snes" is
> > > highlighted on your "play games" screen - on my
> > nvidia tv-out, i just
> > > set it to use fullscreen and interpolation level
> > 1, which works quite
> > > well (dunno about the PVR-350 fb, though).  You
> > may need to suid root
> > > snes9x in order for some options to work, since it
> > needs to play with
> > > /dev/mem.
> >
> > I was wondering if anyone else out there has gotten
> > fullscreen snes9x
> > working on KnoppMyth, with a PVR-x50 would be a
> > plus. When I try
> > loading snes9x manually (as root, otherwise I get
> > the kmem error) with
> > -fs, I get this:
> >
> > X Error of failed request:  XF86DGANoDirectVideoMode
> >   Major opcode of failed request:  137 (XFree86-DGA)
> >   Minor opcode of failed request:  1
> > (XF86DGAGetVideoLL)
> >   Serial number of failed request:  11
> >   Current serial number in output stream:  11
> >
> > The little bit I'm able to find about it has to do
> > with the DGA stuff
> > not being loaded in X. Can anyone confirm this is
> > true with KnoppMuth
> > V4R5? Has anyone successfully used the full screen
> > framebuffer of a
> > PVR-x50 w/ snes9x??
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
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