Seen on tuxpaint-devel… FYI.
----- Forwarded message from John Popplewell -----Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 15:52:19 +0100
From: john@johnnypops.demon.co.uk (John Popplewell)
Subject: Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] [fwd] Re: [SDL] Tux Paint rebooting WinXP!?
To: tuxpaint-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
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On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 12:15:30AM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote:
FYI
----- Forwarded message from Bill Kendrick <@Bill_Kendrick> -----
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 00:09:45 -0700
From: Bill Kendrick <@Bill_Kendrick>
Subject: Re: [SDL] Tux Paint rebooting WinXP!?
To: “A list for developers using the SDL library. (includes SDL-announce)”On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 01:10:39PM -0400, Ryan C. Gordon wrote:
In the meantime… anyone here have ANY clues!?
Buggy DirectX drivers? Can you build him a version of SDL that forces
windib and waveout instead of directx for video and audio?I cannot, as I don’t have XP at home. :^/ No time to figure out how
to cross-compile the libs again, either.Here are some details he sent about his system, though:
(minus stuff like floppy drive specs. ;^) )— begin —
I’ve had a look at the machines in question. For graphics they use the Intel
826X /G/ GV/GL chipset family. To answer the questionsDoes it do this in Windowed mode?
YesDoes the configuration program work?
YesIs it being installed by a “Poweruser”,
Yesand then run by that same “Poweruser”?
YesInfo regarding the model computer is detailed below:
System
IBM ThinkCentre S51
8172-XXX (TBA)Processor
Intel Pentium 4 2.80GHz with Hyper Threading TechnologyMotherboard
PXE Enabled, Wake on LAN Support, 800MHz Front Side BusMemory (RAM)
512MB DDR SDRAMChipset
Intel 915GVideo-Graphics Card
Integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900Sound Card
SoundMAX CadenzaOperating System provided and installed by Vendor
Microsoft Windows XP Home license, Microsoft Windows XP ProfessionalLink to Vendor website
www.ibm.com/solutions/au/publicsector/edu_sol/t4l— end —
Any ideas? Anyone have any WinDIB-compatible SDL DLLs that would work
with Tux Paint that I can have him try?!
Using the version of Tux Paint from the web (0.9.14) it’s possible to
set the driver by using an environment variable.
Open up a command prompt, change to the directory where Tux Paint is
installed (e.g. cd “c:\Program Files\TuxPaint”)
Use the ‘set’ command to set the environment variable like this:
set SDL_VIDEODRIVER=windib
the default is directx in place of windib. Check that it has taken like
this:
set
you should see something like:
…
PROMPT=$P$G
SDL_VIDEODRIVER=windib
SESSIONNAME=Console
SystemDrive=C:
…
Now run Tux Paint by typing:
tuxpaint
You could try with the sound disabled:
tuxpaint --nosound
Be careful though. This version of Tux Paint has an annoying bug that
forces you to wait 30s between runs. It returns without running,
leaving a text file ‘stdout.txt’ containing:
You’re already running a copy of Tux Paint!
even when you aren’t(!)
I checked that the environment variable trick works on XP Pro using the
’testvidinfo’ program, which is part of the SDL source distribution,
cheers,
John Popplewell.
Thanks!
-bill!
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