Re: [Qemu-devel] Disable scaling of SDL

[Taimoor Mirza]

Hi Stefan,

Thanks for your reply. Is there any way I can disable scaling in SDL
library? I've not used SDL before and I am not sure whether there is
some configuration option for it or not?

-Taimoor

On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 11:47 PM, Stefan Weil <address@hidden> wrote:
> Am 24.08.2013 15:43, schrieb Taimoor Mirza:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I am using QEMU with SDL support to run some demo applications.
>> Problem I am facing is that fonts in my SDL window are not displayed
>> properly. I have to press Ctrl+Alt+u to undo scaling. After that fonts
>> display correctly.
>> Is there any way I can disable scaling in SDL window?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Taimoor
>
> Hi Taimoor,
>
> currently the only way to disable scaling is modifying the
> source code and building your own binaries.
>
> SDL scaling is indeed not useful, uses broken code for
> all platforms and scales without reason on Windows host.
>
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/155925/ is a patch
> which disables it.
>
> Regards,
> Stefan
>
>