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Re: [pygame] vidmod hang in pygame.init()



Would you like the honors???

Pete Shinners writes:
 > yay, i get to point the finger. here's something vague from the SDL FAQ...
 > 
 > 
 > Q: I'm running SuSE 7.0 and SDL apps hang on startup!
 > 
 > A: SuSE 7.0 ships broken versions of the X11 libraries. You can either 
 > use precompiled binaries of SDL, or upgrade your X11 installation to 
 > XFree86 4.0.2 or newer.

Actually, this is close, but not quite it -- I'm running 4.0.3, so
it shouldn't apply.  However, SDL hangs in SDL_x11mode.c (line 332
of the current CVS snap, to be specfic) in the middle of a block of
very hairy code designed to hack around a bunch of X11 bugs.



/jamie

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