Help getting sdl to work

Hi There,

I am new to this SDL thing and I downloaded and installed the latest sdl
rpms from the website on my Mandrake 8.1 box, both the development and
runtime rpms.

the problem I have is, not a single one of the tutorials I have tried to
compile actually work! They all compile correctly, but when they run, i
get a garbled screen at best.

I have tried items as simple as lesson02 from the nehe opengl tutorials
to the more complex opengl tutorials from the cone3d site
(interesting i tried the little dragon one from the cone3d site and it
has a pre-built linux executable, which works fine! but when i build it
myself it fails miserably.

I tried uninstalling the rpms and building the library from source, but
that did not make any difference whatsoever.

Has anyone else ever run into this problem? I am at the end of my rope
with this thing, and any help would be greatly appreciated!

thanks.

Ken

I have Mandrake 8.1 and SDL works great. The RPMs from libsdl.org
conflicts with the SDL runtime library that comes with Mandrake, so I had
to do something to force it… I think I used the --nodeps option. But
otherwise they work great.

I haven’t tried the new version (1.2.3) that’s now online – I’ve only
tried 1.2.2.

-MarkOn 7 Feb 2002, Ken Huisman wrote:

Hi There,

I am new to this SDL thing and I downloaded and installed the latest sdl
rpms from the website on my Mandrake 8.1 box, both the development and
runtime rpms.

the problem I have is, not a single one of the tutorials I have tried to
compile actually work! They all compile correctly, but when they run, i
get a garbled screen at best.

I have tried items as simple as lesson02 from the nehe opengl tutorials
to the more complex opengl tutorials from the cone3d site
(interesting i tried the little dragon one from the cone3d site and it
has a pre-built linux executable, which works fine! but when i build it
myself it fails miserably.

I tried uninstalling the rpms and building the library from source, but
that did not make any difference whatsoever.

Has anyone else ever run into this problem? I am at the end of my rope
with this thing, and any help would be greatly appreciated!

thanks.

Ken


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Hi There,

I am new to this SDL thing and I downloaded and installed the latest sdl
rpms from the website on my Mandrake 8.1 box, both the development and
runtime rpms.

the problem I have is, not a single one of the tutorials I have tried to
compile actually work! They all compile correctly, but when they run, i
get a garbled screen at best.

I had the same problem after I installed my new computer, turned out to
be that I hade forgot to install my nvidia glx/glx-dev. So if you’re
sitting there with a nvidia card maybe this would help

I have tried items as simple as lesson02 from the nehe opengl tutorials
to the more complex opengl tutorials from the cone3d site
(interesting i tried the little dragon one from the cone3d site and it
has a pre-built linux executable, which works fine! but when i build it
myself it fails miserably.

I tried uninstalling the rpms and building the library from source, but
that did not make any difference whatsoever.

Has anyone else ever run into this problem? I am at the end of my rope
with this thing, and any help would be greatly appreciated!

thanks.

Ken


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//danielOn Thu, 2002-02-07 at 06:30, Ken Huisman wrote: