Re: [AD] Allegro 4.0.3 beta1

[Hein Zelle <hein@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Eric Botcazou wrote:

> I just released the 4.0.3 beta1 under a new package name
> (allegro-prerelease) at SourceForge. I only tested it on the
> platforms I had mentioned for the initial backport work; in
> particular, MSVC and QNX are untested at this point

I just tested it on linux, redhat 6.2, X 4.1, a laptop with 1024x768
screen, gcc 2.96 (ugh).

Builds flawlessly, but I did notice one strange thing compared to
4.1.4 and 4.1.8 (The latter I just tried to compare): the demo program
doesn't list DGA2.0 as a possible graphics mode anymore in
4.0.3. gfxinfo says

XDFS : DGA 1.0
XDGA : DGA 1.0 window
XWFS : X11 fullscreen
XWIN : X11 window

while the 4.1.8 gfxinfo gives

XWIN : X-Windows keyboard

(BOGGLE! that I didn't expect. Looks like a bug in gfxinfo.)


Second attempt, this time with the test program:

4.1.8:
Auto fullscreen
Auto windowed
DGA 2.0
DGA 2.0 soft
DGA 1.0
DGA 1.0 window
X11 fullscreen
X11 window

4.0.3:
Auto fullscreen
Auto windowed
DGA 1.0
DGA 1.0 window
X11 fullscreen
X11 window


Now DGA1 it can leave out as far as I'm concerned (not even sure if
that works anymore with X 4.1) but DGA 2.0 is definitely available on
this machine, so something is wrong there in 4.0.3 compared to 4.1.8.

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Another strange thing, not so much related to 4.0.3: I've had problems
for about a year or more (since about 3.9.36) that when I would try to
set X11 fullscreen as a graphics mode (both as root and as a normal
user) I get the following error:

[hein@xxxxxxxxxx demo]# ./demo
Error setting 8bpp graphics mode
Can not grab mouse

Both the demo program and my own programs consistently show this
behaviour. I just found out however that the tests/test program DOES
set the x11 fullscreen mode correctly, both as a user and as root!
This works for both 4.0.3 and 4.1.8. Any idea where I can look for the
difference between demo and test? The error above I get on both redhat
(6.2, 7.1, 7.2) and debian (latest) systems, with X ranging from 4.0.1
to 4.1 (and possibly 3.?, not sure though), always consistently.

Hein Zelle

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