[SDL] Re: DGA mode sometimes kills X when freeing the screen

Stephane Marchesin stephane.marchesin at wanadoo.fr
Wed Apr 14 15:27:46 PDT 2004


James Gregory wrote:

>On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 20:37:46 +0100, James Gregory wrote:
>
>>Perhaps one out of ten times that I run my program in DGA mode X will die
>>when SDL_Quit() is called.
>>
>
>Oh, I forgot to say, by "one in ten times" I don't mean I can sit there
>going run-quit-run-quit-run-quit 10 times and it will probably crash.
>
>If I do that it either crashes the first time and every time, or doesn't
>ever crash. There is evidently something else somewhere I do that sets
>something somewhere differently such that it crashes, and I must do this
>thing about 1 in 10 times before running my program.
>
Do you have SDL sound in your program ?
If so, does it still crash if you disable all the sound (i.e. comment 
out all sound init & functions) ?

Stephane






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