Re: [MiNT] FireBee & Freemint

[Paul Wratt <paul.wratt@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 4:05 AM, Jo Even Skarstein <joska@online.no> wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-04-24 at 17:59 +0200, m0n0 wrote:
>
>>  I think the xaaes manual misses to mention that these modes are
>>  declared by other drivers... it just mentions ST/Falcon, but it does not
>>  say that these mode can be anything, at least the VDI or other
>>  subsystems must understand the value. At least that's how I understand
>>  it right now.
>
> Selection screen resolutions with the VDI is a total mess. It can be
> done in so many ways. The best way would be to remove the "video"-option
> completely and leave the task of setting the resolution up to the VDI.
>
> fVDI, NVDI/ET4000, Crazy Dots and Nova all does this differently.
> Documenting the various VDIs should not be up to XaAES.
>
> Jo Even
>
this sounds more useful than first appears:
a mint/tos tool to change rez, that can cope with any vdi (driver)

That would give us a single way to change rez across different AES or
machine + video card combos...

Paul