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(FWD) Re: [pygame] pygame & XFree4 DGA
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From: "Michael Teo" <michaelteo@bigfoot.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 17:01:50 +0800
To: pygame-users@seul.org
Subject: Re: [pygame] pygame & XFree4 DGA
I am using i815 chip.
Apparently, it has something to do with the
pygame.display.set_mode(( 1024, 768 ), HWSURFACE|DOUBLEBUF)
When I do not use DOUBLEBUF, it work. However, the speed is 3 times slower.
With the test programs from libSDL, I can achieve at 2 times increase in
performance with DGA enabled.
I have tried why you guys have posted but pygame still dies.
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 01:31:48PM -0700, David Clark wrote:
>
> > there hasn't been a wide range of testing, but i do know
> > that people have been able to run things with pygame and
> > dga.
> >
> > i believe the usual way it works is to set the environment
> > variable "SDL_VIDEODRIVER=dga", then run the game as root.
> >
>
> I can confirm that dga works, at least with my setup - I've been
> running with dga graphics for several months now without any problems.
>
> I'll echo what Pete said - 'export SDL_VIDEODRIVER="dga"' is what you
> want to do, and you want to run as root. Make sure that the extmod
> extension is loading itself into X properly - check your X log for any
> warnings or error messages. Make sure you're using the latest
> versions of any appropriate software.
>
> My setup:
>
> XFree 4.1.0
> SDL 1.2
> Voodoo 3
>
> --
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