Re: [pygame] pygame init() problem...

[Pete Shinners <pete@shinners.org>]

Stuart wrote:
> This is running under windows 2000, and has run their with the same mix of 
> hardware on several different machine for about 6 months now, but suddenly I 
> have a machine where pygame refuses to init(), infact it just locks up the 
> machine.
locking up the machine is scary. from an interactive interpreter you can 
try initializing each module one at a time. something like this should 
be interesting..

import pygame
pygame.display.init()
pygame.mixer.init()
pygame.joystick.init()
pygame.cdrom.init()
pygame.font.init()

i'm quite certain it will lock on either the display or mixer init. we 
can run pygame without DirectX which is probably the problem here, try 
the commands like this..

import pygame, os
os.environ['SDL_VIDEODRIVER'] = 'windib'
pygame.display.init()
pygame.mixer.init()

that will probably run fine, since it does no special access of directx 
hardware. just runs with regular win32 api calls. if that does run i'd 
recommend trying an upgrade or reinstall of directx, probably the video 
drivers too.

if it still won't run, but 'windib' works ok, just setup a systemwide 
environment variable for that machine.