Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 14:17:47 -0500

From: Richard Smith
Subject: Re: [SDL] Disableing color depth and mode searching

> Also, I should add that a quick way to get the desired effect is to
> #define BROKEN_MODES on top of the SDL_fbvideo.c file.
>

Ah yes, I see that looks like that will do what I need.  Curious as to
why this is a #define and not an enviroment variable like the other
settings.

I would think that finding cards (or chips) with broken modes would be
the norm rather than the execption.

--HG--
extra : convert_revision : svn%3Ac70aab31-4412-0410-b14c-859654838e24/trunk%40942

src/video/fbcon/SDL_fbvideo.c

@@ -463,9 +463,9 @@ static int FB_VideoInit(_THIS, SDL_PixelFormat *vformat)
 	current_w = vinfo.xres;
 	current_h = vinfo.yres;
 	current_index = ((vinfo.bits_per_pixel+7)/8)-1;
-#ifdef BROKEN_MODES
+	if ( getenv("SDL_FB_BROKEN_MODES") != NULL ) {
 		FB_AddMode(this, current_index, current_w, current_h);
-#else
+	} else {
 		for ( i=0; i<NUM_MODELISTS; ++i ) {
 			SDL_nummodes[i] = 0;
 			SDL_modelist[i] = NULL;
@@ -487,7 +487,7 @@ static int FB_VideoInit(_THIS, SDL_PixelFormat *vformat)
 				}
 			}
 		}
-#endif /* BROKEN_MODES */
+	}
 
 	/* Fill in our hardware acceleration capabilities */
 	this->info.wm_available = 0;