From: Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo
Subject: outdated entry in INSTALL file
I've just found in INSTALL file:
If you are cross-compiling from Linux to Win32, you should read
the file README.Win32
But you don't shipped this file with SDL. I've found in CVS logs that
this file has been deleted and this information is now in FAQ.
From: Martin_Storsj
Subject: Dynamic loading of ALSA
I recently discovered that SDL can dynamically load ESD and aRts, and
made a patch which adds this same functionality to ALSA.
The update for configure.in isn't too good (it should e.g. look for
libasound.so in other directories than /usr/lib), because I'm not too
good at shellscripting and autoconf.
The reason for using dlfcn.h and dlopen instead of SDL_LoadLibrary and
SDL_LoadFunction is that libasound uses versioned symbols, and it is
necessary to load the correct version using dlvsym. This isn't probably
any real portability issue, because ALSA is linux-only.
From: Martin_Storsj
Subject: Slight bug in ESD and aRts
When I experimented with the ALSA-patch, I found a slight bug in the
Load{ESD,ARTS}Library-functions. The check of whether a function pointer
was correctly loaded looks like this right now:
*esd_functions[i].func = SDL_LoadFunction(esd_handle,
esd_functions[i].name);
if ( ! esd_functions[i].func )
Isn't that supposed to be ( ! *esd_functions[i].func )?
From: "Mike Gorchak"
Subject: Just a misc. fixes
1) I've added a small fix to the .qpg file - SDLqpg.diff. Added autoconf variables like the @SDL_BINARY_AGE@ instead of directly using "...so.7".
call SDL_PumpEvents() so the X11 driver sets its this->hidden->switch_waiting,
then set a fullscreen OpenGL window (which makes the X11 driver tear down and
create a new window instead of just resizing the existing one), poll for
events, and the newly-created window will think it needs to pop back to a
window. Fixed by resetting switch_waiting to zero if X11_CreateWindow() had
to tear down a previous window.
From: "Ryan C. Gordon"
Subject: Re: MacOS X bugs...
This isn't an ideal patch (trying to open a joystick that has previously
been unplugged will report success, but it'll just never give any input,
etc), but it handles the worst case of deadlock in the event subsystem.
From: "Juergen \"George\" Sawinski"
Subject: Problems compiling libsdl with gcc 3.3
I attached another patch (configure.in.patch) that might resolv issues
for some ppl finding the correct place of libartsc.so.*.
(here, the output of "artsc-config --libs" contains two "-L.*",
therefore the respecting arts_lib_spec contains the wrong path).
On BeOS is should setup it the same way, but it only does when Tracker
wasn't restarted.
I checked code and it looks like a hack to me :(
It looks for env variable and than comapres it to default when OpenTracker
was started after boot, and wasn't restarted. That's probably ok, for that
exact case. Unfortunetly that variable isn't always like that. For
example, after Tracker crashes and is restarted, env variable most
probably is different (depends on how Tracker was restarted, by what
application, etc... for example: i have launcher application from which i
can restart Tracker, and after that nev variable points to that
application's directory, not Tracker's).
ut2004 makes a 2D window for the splash screen, which sets the screen
surface's pixels field. Then we tear down that video mode and create a GL
context, and the Quartz target isn't resetting the pixels field to NULL.
When you just create a GL window, the structure is memset'd to zero the
first time through, so unless you hit ut2004's codepath, you won't see the
bug. :)
Without this patch, quitting a windowed ut2003/ut2004 game makes the OS dump a
warning about a bogus free() to stderr, but it doesn't actually crash. All we
need to do is explicitly initialize the current->pixels field.
From: Max Horn
Subject: Re: Fix for OSX bug
The problem is that our actual client area is realized as a
subview of the "content view" of the window. That's normal so far. The
odd part is that, while our subview starts out filling it parent 100%,
upon resizes it gets changed to something smaller....
Anyway, here is a revised patch which simply enforces the size of
window_view by calling setFrameSize.
From: "Mike Gorchak"
Subject: Batch of the QNX6 fixes for the SDL
1. Updated readme.QNX
2. Fixed crashes during intensive window updating under fast machines (got over 200 rectangles for update).
3. Fixed double-buffered fullscreen modes, now it works as needed.
4. Fixed Photon detection algorithm.
5. Fixed HWSURFACE update function.
6. Added SDL_PHOTON_FULLSCREEN_REFRESH environment variable support for control refresh rates under Photon.
7. Added 640x400 fullscreen mode emulation via 640x480 (if videodriver not supports original 640x400 mode of course) shifted by 40 vertical pixels from begin, to center it. It's needed for some old DOS games which ran in doubled 320x200 mode.
8. Added available video ram amount support.
8. Added hardware surface allocation/deallocation support if current videomode and videodriver supports it.
9. Added hardware filling support.
10. Added hardware blits support (simple and colorkeyed).
And I've added to testvidinfo test color-keyed blits benchmark (maybe need to add alpha blits benchmark too ?). Currently Photon not supporting any alpha hardware blittings (all drivers lack of alpha blitting code support, only software alpha blitting exist in photon, which is hundreds times slowest than the SDL's one). So I've not added the alpha support. I suppose new QNX 6.3 will have the hardware alpha support, so when it will be done, I'll add alpha support.
