[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] pygame -- problems with initializing screen display

[From: Kalle Vahlman]

On 5/15/06, Christine Liu <liuliuliu at gmail.com> wrote:
> hello all -
> thanks for the supportive community.
> having issues with pygame on my nokia 770:
>
> Nokia770-51:/home/user# python2.4 ballbounce.py
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "ballbounce.py", line 8, in ?
>     screen = pygame.display.set_mode(size)
> pygame.error: No video mode large enough for 320x240
>
> i was having this error earlier on -- it doesnt like setting the
> screen size! even if it's very obviously small, like 10 x 10 pixels,
> or the fully correct res, 800 x 480. strange.

Not at all strange, since

  http://maemo.org/maemowiki/GameDevelopment

states that

"The screen is natively 800x480. No resolution changes are supported.
Maybe in the future we might have support for 400x240 res for faster
graphics but this is quite unlikely. If trying to set fullscreen
window smaller than the native screen size, you will just have black
borders."

So the options are to either leave the edges there or scale the game
up to 800x480.

-- 
Kalle Vahlman, zuh at iki.fi
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