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

John Harvey john.p.harvey at btinternet.com
Mon Jan 24 04:46:11 EST 2005


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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