[SDL] Optimal mode from SDL_GetVideoMode

[Stephane Marchesin]

benang at cs.its.ac.id wrote:
> Thanks for the feedback. It's very enlightening. Just as I thought, using
> X will make the game runs slower.
This may or may not be the case. If X is the only way for you to get 
your card to do DMA, then it might very well be faster, even if it eats 
up a little more memory.

>  The truth is, I'm just getting to know
> Linux only recently. Well, I've used Linux before in practicums in my
> college days few years ago (although only the basics). So I'm pretty much
> a not-so-newbie-but-not-so-seasoned Linux user. I've tried running my
> application in pure console (without using Win Manager at all) and it
> returned some error. So at that time I assumed SDL can't be used in
> console. Can you point me to some resources to make SDL in fbcon?
>
>   
What's your target graphics hardware ? This matters a lot in your case. 
SDL will only accelerate blits on fbcon with some video cards.

Stephane