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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 13:09:32 +0300 From: Tommi Kyntola <tommi.kyntola@ray.fi> To: sdl@libsdl.org Subject: [SDL] [RFC] get_ticks broken on linux It uses gettimeofday to calculate the timedifference. Gettimeofday returns current time which is seldom monotonous. This breaks SDL timer subsystem. (time callbacks and all that get borked when the time difference ms is suddenly ~ 2^32) I posted a message about this earlier but got no response. Some thoughts on this matter would be appreciated. (Or even an explanation for the lack of interest.) A patch below would use the posix timers that have been around since posix 93 and do provide a good source of monotonous time on linux boxes (and on few others too). The following patch is also availabe at: http://www.hut.fi/u/tkyntola/SDL-1.2.9-clockfix.patch It's against 1.2.9, but I can easily rediffit against the cvs branch is needed. cheers, Tommi Kyntola tommi.kyntola@ray.fi
author Ryan C. Gordon <icculus@icculus.org>
date Tue, 11 Oct 2005 18:16:12 +0000
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>SDL_VideoModeOK&nbsp;--&nbsp;Check to see if a particular video mode is supported.</DIV
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if the requested mode is not supported under any bit depth, or returns the 
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>The bits-per-pixel value returned is only a suggested mode. You can usually request and bpp you want when <A
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>  the video mode and SDL will emulate that color depth with a shadow video surface.</P
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printf("Checking mode 640x480@16bpp.\n");
bpp=SDL_VideoModeOK(640, 480, 16, SDL_HWSURFACE);

if(!bpp){
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