On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 6:02 PM, Bram Cymet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Thanks for the response,
>
> I have tried just using pygame regardless. I only actually found out
> about the info stuff while trying to debug problems.
>
> The actual problem I am having is that the only mode that pygame seems
> to see is 640X480 even though the screen in the eee pc can do 1200X800
> and I am using it with an external display and I need it to do 1360X768
> which is outputting just fine with other applications.
>
> Patrick Mullen wrote:
> > It looks like your eee pc is using directfb or some sort rather than
> > standard x11.  fbcon = framebuffer console maybe?  Not sure.
> >
> > I did some googling and found some reports of people having trouble in
> > this regard, with other reports of it working.
> >
> > By the way, have you tried skipping the display.info and just trying
> > to use pygame anyway?  Also an actual error log might be helpful.
> >
>
>
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> Bram Cymet
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>
>
> Found by google, seems that this person has managed to setting pygame in
the eeepc, maybe you can ask him:
http://eis.comp.lancs.ac.uk/~carl/blog/2008/09/eeepc-headaches/
A link from him also points to a page about how to configure the xandros
display for certain resolutions:
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Xorg_RandR_1.2#Using_xrandr_to_do_useful_things
hth
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claxo

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