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Title: Doom/quake Sdl Problem
Post by: XorA on January 11, 2005, 09:01:42 am

Doom will only run if it is the first thing run from boot. It seems that once SDL has run once it wont run again.

Quake at first displayed its splash screen before crashing, now it just crashes in the same way doom does.

Have I stuffed my config somewhere or is anyone else seeing this?

Title: Doom/quake Sdl Problem
Post by: tovarish on January 11, 2005, 12:13:24 pm

i have copies of doom and quake which run without such problems.

i use cmisip's softfloat enabled quake and prboom from zports. works very well indeedy

tovarish

Title: Doom/quake Sdl Problem
Post by: XorA on January 12, 2005, 04:01:31 am

Ah, I was hoping the ones in the feed would work correctly.

Ill have to investigate zports.

Title: Doom/quake Sdl Problem
Post by: stupkid on January 12, 2005, 02:22:09 pm

Are you running the packages from the Cacko 1.22 Feed?  If so are you running them on your SL-5500 or your c860?

Oh, the packages on the Cacko feed are the two suggested by tovarish.

Title: Doom/quake Sdl Problem
Post by: XorA on January 13, 2005, 03:51:07 am

I am running packages from cacko feed, its the only feed I have on the system. I am using a C860, I sold my 5500.

Title: Doom/quake Sdl Problem
Post by: stupkid on January 14, 2005, 02:14:12 am

Hmm, I am running the exact same ROM on the same hardware with a vanilla configuration and have no such problem.  

Let's trouble-shoot one app at a time.  With Quake I am assuming that you have quake-engine and quake-demo installed.  Please describe how you installed these pcakages.  Did you install all the packages at once, on at a time or in some variation?  Did you install these to SD/CF/Internal Flash?  Could you be a bit more descriptive about when they crash and what you see on the screen?

Title: Doom/quake Sdl Problem
Post by: XorA on January 14, 2005, 04:20:20 am

The were installed in one batch using package manager on the Internal Flash.

quake-demo
quake-engine
doom-demo
doom-engine

This is part of the problem it does it a number of different ways.

1) You click the icon, you get the screen resize with the "Please Wait" text, it then returns to 640x480 with no other output.
2) You click the icon, the screen flashes, returns to desktop
3) You click the icon, see the splash screen of quake/doom the toolbar re-appears on side of screen and even after leaving it for 10+minutes the games do not start.
4) Annoyingly it works perfectly.

Im guessing it is a timing issue between the rotate/resize and the SDL starting, I have more success if I rotate from rotate menu then run quake-demo or doom-demo from the command line.

When they run the games run beautifully though.

I will have another play at lunchtime and see if I can work out what is going on, I know SDL is segfaulting in at least one of the cases.

If I get time I might backup my data and reflash, then I can monitor the difference between a default install and my working set of apps.

Title: Doom/quake Sdl Problem
Post by: stupkid on January 14, 2005, 10:24:03 am

Strange, I have not seen this exact behaviour on my Z.  I compressed the quake .pak files in the package to conserve space, but the load time is increased.  You might try unzipping the .pak files:

cd /opt/QtPalmtop/share/quake/id1
for i in *.gz ; do gunzip $i ; done

Then try running quake again. The uncompressed files are pretty big (18MB).

Title: Doom/quake Sdl Problem
Post by: craigtyson on February 28, 2005, 05:43:38 pm

Iv just installed crimson doom and heretic with sdl from the cacko feed.  Only heretic works but is upside down the others dont start.  I also tried installing libs that work on my old 5500 tkc v1 but still nothing.

Title: Doom/quake Sdl Problem
Post by: stupkid on March 01, 2005, 05:30:27 pm

It runs upside down?  Did you install a libsdl package from somewhere?  You should not have this problem if you use the included libsdl that is in the ROM.

Title: Doom/quake Sdl Problem
Post by: craigtyson on March 01, 2005, 06:08:33 pm

Hm could be I stuffed it with an older version.  I have tried reinstalling the one from the cacko feed but stll no luck.

Title: Doom/quake Sdl Problem
Post by: craigtyson on March 02, 2005, 09:04:17 am

Now tried the libsdl recomended for S series --> 1.2.5-slzaurus20030704

Still no luck.  Oh hum I feel like a flash coming on...........

Title: Doom/quake Sdl Problem
Post by: craigtyson on March 03, 2005, 02:12:32 pm

OK reflashed and.........

Crimson works most of the time but does crash from time to time.  Doom does not start.  Quake does not start.  Heretic starts then locks the 750

I have loaded SDLMixer from the cacko feed and still no go.  What am I missing?  are there any other dependencies? zlib?  Im a bit stuck

Title: Doom/quake Sdl Problem
Post by: stupkid on March 03, 2005, 02:50:00 pm

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OK reflashed and.........

Crimson works most of the time but does crash from time to time.  Doom does not start.  Quake does not start.  Heretic starts then locks the 750

I have loaded SDLMixer from the cacko feed and still no go.  What am I missing?  are there any other dependencies? zlib?  Im a bit stuck
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Are you installing directly from the feed or are you downloading and then installing?

Title: Doom/quake Sdl Problem
Post by: craigtyson on March 03, 2005, 04:21:35 pm

installing from the network using software installer straight from the feed.  not downloading first then installing

Title: Doom/quake Sdl Problem
Post by: craigtyson on March 05, 2005, 05:52:01 am

Found somthing abit strange.....

I reinstalled some other apps.  One of which is Murphy pinyin input method.  Iv noticed the efont which is part of teh ipk is corrupt and missing several chinese characters.  This was definatly working before I reflashed.

Im going to deinstall and try installing form a saved file to see if there  is any diffrence.

Title: Doom/quake Sdl Problem
Post by: craigtyson on March 05, 2005, 06:05:22 pm

OK wierd.  Downloaded the murphy package and installed from local file......
Efont now displays OK..... Does that mean there is a problem with the cacko feed, downloading or installing via network???

Title: Doom/quake Sdl Problem
Post by: craigtyson on March 05, 2005, 06:06:16 pm

Going to download heretic and sdlmixer and give it a try.

Title: Doom/quake Sdl Problem
Post by: craigtyson on March 05, 2005, 06:28:16 pm

All working........