Monday, August 18, 2003

XFree86 4.3.0 and libSDL Fix -- 10:20 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun

After months of searching, I found a fix for my problems with XFree86 4.3.0 and libSDL not playing nice together (story). Basically what happened was that if I played an SDL game at a resolution other than my desktop resolution, the monitor refresh rates would get all wonky. Thankfully, a fix for this problem has gone into libSDL's CVS. I downloaded the latest CVS snapshot, compiled, and installed it. (As an aside, it was nice that Slackware doesn't make me worry about RPM dependencies to get this to work.) I had to remove ./lib: from the Neverwinter Nights nwn script and move libSDL-1.2.so.0 from UT2K3's System directory so those games would use the system libSDL instead. Now the games can change resolutions and not force me to play with a 60Hz refresh rate. Huzzah!

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