[prey] Demo feedback

Ryan C. Gordon icculus at icculus.org
Sun Nov 2 01:51:45 EST 2008


> One with multimonitor. Looks like it detects 2560x1024 as maximun 
> resolution and tries to set it on one monitor. Of course, the monitor 
> goes black.

This probably won't get fixed, unfortunately. Some day we'll be shipping 
SDL 1.3-based titles, where we can handle this better, but not today.

> And the default alsa sound plays with noise and robot-like sometimes. I 
> had to set it to oss.

Can't win here...if we make the default ALSA, it'll break some systems, 
and if we make it OSS, it'll break others.

For what it's worth, the demo defaults to OSS (I'm not sure how you got 
ALSA by default if you have a working /dev/dsp), but the next build will 
default to ALSA, as almost everyone that is using /dev/dsp is actually 
not using OSS, but rather a compatibility layer for something else.

It can be forced to PulseAudio or OSS, etc, though, with the 
SDL_AUDIODRIVER environment variable.

Or you can put your own libSDL-1.2.so.0 in there, or try your luck with 
the OpenAL codepath, too. There are options, but it's still frustrating 
that this seems to come down to luck on any given system, and--failing 
that--user intervention.

--ryan.





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