[SDL] BUG: Linux/X: Crash when setting video mode for higher XRandR modes than current (X BadValue)

[Andras Salamon]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 01:05:53AM +0100, Gerry JJ wrote:
> As the subject says, SDL fails setting the full screen video mode to  
> resolutions higher than current XRandR resolution setting (I'm using Linux  
> on an amd64 system, with Xorg 6.8.2 and the nvidia 1.0.8178 driver, if  
> that matters), in stead choosing to crash with a BadValue error from X.

This sounds similar to the crash on Mac OS X with setting windowed
resolution to a value greater than the current screen size (there the
problem is that the maximum value doesn't take into account the size of
the menu bar which the system insists on displaying).

-- Andras Salamon                   andras at dns.net