Re: [pygame] Pygame problems on Linux

[Matt Bailey <mattb@xxxxxxxxxx>]

You mean me, or David? I just compiled the SDL libs with the usual configure, 
make, make install (as root), as normal, then compiled Pygame.

	-Matt Bailey

On Thursday 30 December 2004 13:36, andrew baker wrote:
> What about your library paths?  Did you make sure to update them with
> your Python libraries?
>
>
> On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 09:39:15 +0000 (GMT), David Holland
>
> <davholla2002@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Matt,
> >
> > I had lots of problems, here is a reference that could help you.
> > http://www.linuxforum.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=74595&hl=pygame
> > In the end though I solved it by reinstalling Linux with pygame included
> > but I think that was neccessary because of mistakes that I made.
> > I hope that is of some use.
> >
> > Matt Bailey <mattb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Howdy,
> >
> > Just got Linux installed again, and am trying to install Pygame on it.
> > I'm using Slackware 9.x and compiling from Pygame 1.6.2 source, with
> > Python 2.3.1. After compiling the SDL_mixer, SDL_image, and SDL_font
> > libs, Pygame recognizes these and compiles ok with them, but my game (and
> > other games, in the examples directory) doesn't run. Well, it runs, but
> > does nothing. No errors, no screen appears or anything, the terminal just
> > sits there until I stop it.
> > Earlier, before I had the mixer, image, and fonts libs installed (my game
> > uses mixer and image), I'd see the Pygame window momentarily pop up, the
> > terminal would spit out some errors about mixer not being present, and it
> > stopped. It looks like the hang-up happens after importing everything but
> > before calling pygame.init().....after hitting Ctrl-c a couple times to
> > kill the thing, I see the message I put in to be printed after
> > pygame.init(), and a window briefly appears. My guess is it's hanging on
> > pygame.init(). Any ideas? I've also hit a solid brick wall on getting
> > numeric and smpeg to compile, but I won't bore you with that. :P (I don't
> > need numeric at all, and
> > will only need smpeg if/when I decide to use MP3's for music in my game).
> > I really don't want to have to keep running back to Windows just to work
> > on my game. >:(
> > Strangely, before I installed the extra SDL stuff and recompiled Pygame
> > to support these, the code got past the init function and got to the
> > point where
> > I defined sounds, because it threw an error at the first line of sound
> > stuff (which happens after init) about there not being any mixer.
> >
> > -Matt Bailey
> >
> > PS: Here's the apparant hang-up, according to strace (last two lines that
> > strace show):
> >
> > access ("/dev/dsp0", F_OK = 0
> > open ("/dev/dsp0", 0_WRONLY