From: "Al Amzeen (Alexandr Amzin)" <amzeen AT mtu-net DOT ru>
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Subject: Re: Allegro
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 22:59:13 +0400
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oneliner:Frozen and fired out.
Greetings, <GAMMELJL AT SLU DOT EDU>! You wrote:
>      But then I got greedy and wanted to increase the resolution and
> so changed a line in ex1.c to read
>         set_gfx_mode(GFX_VGA,640,480,0,0);
> and my code crashes.  I have a super VGA monitor with 2mb of Vram and
> a nVida-128, so I downloaded the SciTechSoft stuff and switched to
> their driver.  But my code still crashes.
>     Ultimatly, of course, I want to do 1024x768.  Maybe I don't have
> the syntax right for a SuperVGA monitor.  allegro.txt talks about
> SVGA and the higher resolutions and SciTech doctor but I haven't been
> able to find a specific example of syntax.
>      help...
Try that one (it contains autodetecter, not plain VGA).

set_gfx_mode(GFX_AUTODETECT, 640, 480, 0, 0);

be happy.