Suse 7 & SDL problems! (a weird update!)

SDL Development
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Hi,

Over the last few days, i have been trying to get the SDL working with

SuSe 7 Linux.
while following the suggestions on this group, i along with a few others
cannot seem to get the libs working.

I have a new twist on the problem! ;o)

I dlownloaded the demo of Raptor and yes, after compiling, it just sat at
the command prompt and I had to Ctrl-C to return control to the console.

Yesterday, I downloaded the Quake3 demo from loki games and installed it. (I
installed ALL the options on the installation)
once installed, I ran the demo, but it didn’t work (just changed the screen
to a lower res but just left a black screen and i could scroll round and see
the rest of the desktop!!!) BUT! I just thought I would try some of the SDL
demos and raptor.

The demos still didnt work, yet Raptor DID! ??? WIERD!!! hehehe…

Mark.

Ps. gutted Quake didnt work as with it being a 48meg dlownload! :o(

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Op Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Mark Jervis schreef:

Hi,

I dlownloaded the demo of Raptor and yes, after compiling, it just sat at
the command prompt and I had to Ctrl-C to return control to the console.

once installed, I ran the demo, but it didn’t work (just changed the screen
to a lower res but just left a black screen and i could scroll round and see
the rest of the desktop!!!) BUT! I just thought I would try some of the SDL
demos and raptor.

The demos still didnt work, yet Raptor DID! ??? WIERD!!! hehehe…

Amazing!

And I find it acutally more weird that quake manages to switch the video
mode! Any sdl program never got that far! :slight_smile:
Where getting there … I can feel it :wink:

John

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Yeah! very wierd!

I cant understand how Raptor worked as that uses the SDL too!!!
i think that it has something to do with the 3dfx glide that quake
installs as when i installed it without that option, raptor didnt
work!!!
my head is like swiss cheese with trying to figure out whats happening!!
hehe

Mark.

John v/d Kamp wrote:>

Op Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Mark Jervis schreef:

Hi,

I dlownloaded the demo of Raptor and yes, after compiling, it just sat at
the command prompt and I had to Ctrl-C to return control to the console.

once installed, I ran the demo, but it didn’t work (just changed the screen
to a lower res but just left a black screen and i could scroll round and see
the rest of the desktop!!!) BUT! I just thought I would try some of the SDL
demos and raptor.

The demos still didnt work, yet Raptor DID! ??? WIERD!!! hehehe…

Amazing!

And I find it acutally more weird that quake manages to switch the video
mode! Any sdl program never got that far! :slight_smile:
Where getting there … I can feel it :wink:

John