Re: [pygame] Pygame problems on Linux

[Nick Loadholtes <nloadholtes@xxxxxxxxx>]

 Hi Matt, I'm running Mandrake 9.2 with Pygame and
I've noticed that if I am running my mp3 player
(freeamp) I'll get an error mesage about /dev/dsp0,
but then it keeps on going and the program starts and
runs normally. My pygame project isn't playing any
sounds at the moment, but now I'm wondering if I would
see a similar error if it did play sounds...

-Nick

--- 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
> 
> 


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