Fullscreen not working

Rasi · Post by **Rasi** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 8:03 am

Hello, i have a problem with scummvm's fullscreen mode.
My Monitor simply blanks and gives a "out of range" warning.

The only mode that works is the the normal (non-scaled) mode, that looks very ugly in fullscreen... all other scalers make it blank with and without aspect ratio correction.

The OS is linux with latest stable nvidia drivers. My Monitor is a Acer AJ15FP.

clem · Post by **clem** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 10:22 am

does that happen with both the 2x and 3x scalers?
odd.

md5 · Post by **md5** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 10:55 am

Have you tried running any other games in full screen?

Rasi · Post by **Rasi** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 4:12 pm

Well.. update:

I can run monkey island, dott and others with the same resolution just fine with a x3 scaler.... others (like discworld2) dont work at ANY scaler and not even without one...

Discworld 2 with x2 scaler is already larger than my monitor, there it makes sense... but my monitor for sure can handle 640x480 input...

*Edit*

In Windows it indeed DOES work... must be something wrong with my X setup...

Rasi · Post by **Rasi** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 4:36 pm

Just realised: I cant change my screen resolution to 640x480 at all.. it just blanks - so its not only scummvm...

Here is my xorg.conf:

http://rafb.net/p/jrfpoH12.html

Lostech · Post by **Lostech** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 4:42 pm

It´s probably not only just a resolution thing. I had similiar problems with old DOS games in DOSBox under WinXP when using my old monitor. Although the monitor was capable of showing the used resolution there was a problem that this resolution didn´t work with all refresh rate modes. But the same PC setup with another monitor did work. So perhaps you should try to switch down to a lower refresh rate when using VGA resolution.

Rasi · Post by **Rasi** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 5:44 pm

Lostech wrote:It´s probably not only just a resolution thing. I had similiar problems with old DOS games in DOSBox under WinXP when using my old monitor. Although the monitor was capable of showing the used resolution there was a problem that this resolution didn´t work with all refresh rate modes. But the same PC setup with another monitor did work. So perhaps you should try to switch down to a lower refresh rate when using VGA resolution.

hmmm.. and how can i do this in linux?

Rasi · Post by **Rasi** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 6:00 pm

Rasi wrote:
Lostech wrote:It´s probably not only just a resolution thing. I had similiar problems with old DOS games in DOSBox under WinXP when using my old monitor. Although the monitor was capable of showing the used resolution there was a problem that this resolution didn´t work with all refresh rate modes. But the same PC setup with another monitor did work. So perhaps you should try to switch down to a lower refresh rate when using VGA resolution.

hmmm.. and how can i do this in linux?

btw, experienced further: i can run X in 320x240... the only resolution not working is indeed 640x480 (and probably 640x400)

Lostech · Post by **Lostech** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 7:08 pm

It should be possible to reconfigure the Xserver and to choose within the monitor settings which resolution@refreshrate the Xserver can use.
There should be many Howto´s available for every Linux distribution for reconfiguring the Xserver.
Since you´re using the Nvidia drivers you should escpecially search for "nvidia-xconfig".