Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Patch: Cleaner exit on error

[Holger L. <de...@la...>]

Hi,

On Sunday 20 August 2006 03:50, David Yoder wrote:
> I couldn't find a working tuxtype list, so I'll just post here.

rights, it's down atm, I need to write mail about that...

> The fix I made to tuxmath is already present (perhaps in a more elegant
> way) in tuxtype. That is, calling SDL_Quit for all exits. In tuxtype it is
> done with atexit(). The bug report stated it was found in 1.0-4. I looked
> all the way back to CVS Tag 0.9 on the sourceforge CVS repository, and the
> same atexit(SDL_Quit) method is used everywhere I look.

Strange. I definitly had it happening with a recent version from svn - and =
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know there where no relevant changes in svn since them.

> The version I installed with Ubuntu Dapper, 1.0, is working correctly
> (switches to a different resolution fullscreen, then switches back at
> exit).

Sometimes upon exit (also regular ones) the screen resolution is wrong.

> Being Dapper, my DSL libraries are newer than reported in the bug. And I
> don't have a clue what other than the X server is in the chain to change X
> resolution. So I'm not reproducing the exact case. But at least the probl=
em
> doesn't seem to be in tuxtype.

Though the last time it happened, it was with xfree86, not with xorg...

> In summary I couldn't reproduce the bug. I don't know what Debian's
> policies are on closing bugs that can't be reproduced (and are 3 years
> old).

As I could "reproduce" it (it just happens randomly, yay) recently, I won't=
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close this one.


regards & thanks anyway!
	Holger