Re: [tuxracer-main] Re: Tuxracer SDL and Mesa

[Dmitri P. <pr...@ke...>]

Well, I already followed this procedure once (I use XFree86 3.6 or so), and now
linked with SDL1.1.7 it dies on startup giving me error about uncought signall 11.

On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 08:06:53AM -0800, Sam Lantinga wrote:
> > There has been an ongoing problem with Tuxracer and SDL on Linux. This
> > may have already been fixed. I just wanted to make sure you knew about
> > the problem.
> 
> > It appears to be some conflict between SDL and Mesa. I'm not exactly
> > sure if its a problem with SDL or not.
> > The problem occurs when linking in newer SDL 1.1.5 version (not exactly
> > sure which version it starts, but one user on the Tuxracer list reported
> > that 1.1.2 worked fine). When SDL is linked Tuxracer goes into windowed
> > mode and fails to render on accelerated hardware (Voodoo 3 in my case, I
> > also heard of NVidia users having the same problem). I have now upgraded
> > my Linux system to Mandrake 7.2 and I no longer experience this problem.
> 
> This is caused by a conflict between the version of XVidMode that SDL is
> linked with and the one compiled into Glide.  The latest SDL binaries
> (SDL 1.1.7 released today) have a hacked workaround for this problem.
> 
> See ya!
> 	-Sam Lantinga, Lead Programmer, Loki Entertainment Software
> 
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Thanks,
Dmitri Priimak