Linux crash when switching to fullscreen with geforce driver

SDL Development
1

Hi!

Are there any known issues with SDL and nvidia geforce4 chipsets?
On my System (Pentium 4, Fedora Core 1, Gnome Desktop 1024x768, geforce4) a
simple program that switches to fullscreen mode causes the whole system to
freeze on the second (sometimes the third) execution.
Here is the code:

#include <SDL.h>

int main(void)
{
SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO);
SDL_SetVideoMode(800, 600, 32, SDL_FULLSCREEN | SDL_DOUBLEBUF);
SDL_Quit();
return 0;
}

The crash only happens when using an nvidia driver and switching to a
different resolution.
The generic VESA driver works fine.
I tried the SDL versions 1.2.5-9, 1.2.6-1 and 1.2.7-1 (the binary runtime
rpms) and the development version I use is 1.2.6-1.

If you need more information about my system, please let me know (and also
describe how to get it as I am fairly new to SDL and Linux).

Kind Regards,
Michael

2

Do you use the framebuffer console or X? In either case you should probably
contact the driver developer for help. nVidia has a forum dedicated to the
Linux/X Windows drivers where you might get much better support than here.

Regards,
Gregor MuecklOn Thursday 16 September 2004 16:11, Michael Kastner wrote:

Hi!

Are there any known issues with SDL and nvidia geforce4 chipsets?
On my System (Pentium 4, Fedora Core 1, Gnome Desktop 1024x768, geforce4) a
simple program that switches to fullscreen mode causes the whole system to
freeze on the second (sometimes the third) execution.
Here is the code:

#include <SDL.h>

int main(void)
{
SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO);
SDL_SetVideoMode(800, 600, 32, SDL_FULLSCREEN | SDL_DOUBLEBUF);
SDL_Quit();
return 0;
}

The crash only happens when using an nvidia driver and switching to a
different resolution.
The generic VESA driver works fine.
I tried the SDL versions 1.2.5-9, 1.2.6-1 and 1.2.7-1 (the binary runtime
rpms) and the development version I use is 1.2.6-1.

If you need more information about my system, please let me know (and also
describe how to get it as I am fairly new to SDL and Linux).

Kind Regards,
Michael

3

Michael Kastner wrote:

Hi!

Are there any known issues with SDL and nvidia geforce4 chipsets?
On my System (Pentium 4, Fedora Core 1, Gnome Desktop 1024x768, geforce4) a
simple program that switches to fullscreen mode causes the whole system to
freeze on the second (sometimes the third) execution.

Are you running the rivafb module ? If so, please switch to the vesafb
module. Incompatibilities exist between the rivafb module and the closed
nvidia drivers.

Other than that, I run a geforce4 ti and a geforce4 mx with SDL without
any problem.

Stephane