Re: [pygame] SDL_ttf render failed

[Pete Shinners <pete@shinners.org>]

Jonathan Doughty wrote:
> > self.text = font.render(message, 0, (255,0,0), self.notcolor)
> > pygame.error: SDL_ttf render failed
back when i was on gentoo i had the same problem. i was the only gentoo user 
on the planet to have the same problem (strange). the error is coming from 
freetype. somehow the libraries get into a funk and you cannot render 
non-antialiased text. if you pass '1' as the second arg to render() it will 
work just fine.

i never was able to resolve this. i just enabled antialiasing on games i 
wanted to play and they usually worked fine. i never figured out what was 
wrong, but back in debian-land everything is a-ok.