Re: [AD] Allegro 4.0.3 beta1

["Eric Botcazou" <ebotcazou@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> 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.)

Or the driver list.

> 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.

Definitely. I'll investigate.

> 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.

I already noticed the very same problem some time ago, after switching from
Mandrake 8.0 to Redhat 7.3, with every Allegro version I could try, so I
thought it was local to my system. Apparently it is not... weird, weird,
weird...

- Eric