[SDL] SDL with fbcon

[Vassilis Virvilis]

lynx.abraxas at freenet.de wrote:
> Hallo!
> 
> 
> Great  work! Thanks. I'm a big fan of fbcon and was very happy to see that SDL
> can use it. Sadly the text with alpha background flickers so  heavily
> that  it is difficult to watch.

That shouldn't happen. Maybe you have a misconfigured fbcon system? What
is the vertical refresh rate. If it is too low try to edit /etc/fb.modes

Maybe the flickering comes from the game not properly implementing the double
buffer. If you have the source try to impose some options such as {H,S}WSURFACE
double buffer etc...

Is that a problem of sdl or of  the  game  (eg
> wesnoth,  it's  not  there  under  X11)?  Can  I do something against it? What
> library has SDL to be linked against to support fbcon?
> 

SDL requires no library for the fbcon backend.


       .bill