DGA,Fullscreen SDL

SDL Development
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I have a problem with SDL 1.0.1.DGA works in X but none of the SDL programs run in fullscreen.

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I have a problem with SDL 1.0.1.DGA works in X but none of the SDL programs run in fullscreen.

What kind of video card do you have? If you debug the programs yourself,
you should be able to find out why this is.

-Sam Lantinga				(slouken at devolution.com)

Lead Programmer, Loki Entertainment Software–
“Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature”
– Rich Kulawiec

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Hi,
Actually I found out that the problem was in setting env. variable DISPLAY to “:0.0” instead of
"unix:0.0" as it appears in Redhat 6.1 X Servers.(DOH!)
I found this out in mtv help file which says this is reqd. for DGA to work.
Actually DGA works(tested with another program) even with “unix:0.0”,SO is it something with
SDL??(And Maybe this is worth putting up somewhere for others)

Now the next problem!!When SDL does switch to fullscreen it doesn’t return my screen back to
me.Instead X crashes and I get a blank screen and I have to press Ctrl-Alt-Del and hear only sound
as a confirmation that my m/c is rebooting.

BTW I have a Cirrus Logic 5440 card(Do I hear somebody laugh?) and my friend who has the same card
has the same crashing problem.I wasn’t so with SDL 0.99.

Thanx for Ur time.

Sam Lantinga wrote:>

I have a problem with SDL 1.0.1.DGA works in X but none of the SDL programs run in fullscreen.

What kind of video card do you have? If you debug the programs yourself,
you should be able to find out why this is.

    -Sam Lantinga                           (slouken at devolution.com)

Lead Programmer, Loki Entertainment Software

“Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature”
– Rich Kulawiec

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Now the next problem!!When SDL does switch to fullscreen it doesn’t return my screen back to
me.Instead X crashes and I get a blank screen and I have to press Ctrl-Alt-Del and hear only sound
as a confirmation that my m/c is rebooting.

BTW I have a Cirrus Logic 5440 card(Do I hear somebody laugh?) and my friend who has the same card
has the same crashing problem.I wasn’t so with SDL 0.99.

Have you upgraded your X server since it last worked?
Can you send me this card? I’ve had this reported, but I can’t reproduce
it with any hardware we have here.

Sam Lantinga
23149 Los Alisos Blvd #202
Mission Viejo, CA 92691

Thanks!
-Sam Lantinga (slouken at devolution.com)

Lead Programmer, Loki Entertainment Software–
“Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature”
– Rich Kulawiec

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Now the next problem!!When SDL does switch to fullscreen it doesn’t return my screen back to
me.Instead X crashes and I get a blank screen and I have to press Ctrl-Alt-Del and hear only sound
as a confirmation that my m/c is rebooting.

BTW I have a Cirrus Logic 5440 card(Do I hear somebody laugh?) and my friend who has the same card
has the same crashing problem.I wasn’t so with SDL 0.99.

I have the same problem - when i try to get anything in fullscreen

under root, i get blank screen and all i can do is sync, umount and reboot
via magic sysqrc. I have S3 Virge clone. This error occured when i try to
play tycoon demo from root.

Have you upgraded your X server since it last worked?
Can you send me this card? I’ve had this reported, but I can’t reproduce
it with any hardware we have here.

1) No
2) No :-) (i live far, far away from america)

A.D.Danilecki "szopen"On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Sam Lantinga wrote:

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Arkadiusz Danilecki wrote:

Now the next problem!!When SDL does switch to fullscreen it doesn’t return my screen back to
me.Instead X crashes and I get a blank screen and I have to press Ctrl-Alt-Del and hear only sound
as a confirmation that my m/c is rebooting.

BTW I have a Cirrus Logic 5440 card(Do I hear somebody laugh?) and my friend who has the same card
has the same crashing problem.I wasn’t so with SDL 0.99.

    I have the same problem - when i try to get anything in fullscreen

under root, i get blank screen and all i can do is sync, umount and reboot
via magic sysqrc. I have S3 Virge clone. This error occured when i try to
play tycoon demo from root.

I have a ViRGE 4MB too, and have always gotten the same results. I’m
using XFree86 3.3.5. But I don’t need to magic-sysrq the thing to stop
it, or so it would seem. Apparently, I can still switch virtual
consoles, and kill X by Ctrl-C-ing the console where I did a startx. I
set the thing to suid root but nothing happens. Run the program as root
and we get the soft screen lock.> On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Sam Lantinga wrote:

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