On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Avi Kivity<avi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 06/30/2009 06:35 PM, Michael Jinks wrote: >> >> My first hitch was that apparently SDL isn't working properly on my >> system, because running a console with SDL enabled just prints garbage >> characters to my xterm. <snip> > I'd start fixing this first. Okay, that's helpful all by itself, apparently I'm not just up against known bad behavior. > Do other SDL applications work? Is SDL fully > installed? I honestly don't know. Several SDL packages are present and intact according to my system's package manager (libsdl, sdl-gfx, sdl-image and others), and the same package manager knows that SDL is a dependency for kvm, so, maybe. But when I go looking for simple SDL demo programs to test with, I have more trouble. The SDL web site's list of demo programs is mostly made up of broken links, and the demo programs I have been able to track down and install are failing for reasons that don't look SDL-related. (For instance, "ballfield" from http://olofson.net/examples.html will run, pops up a window briefly, then crashes with "Could not load balls!") So, any tips on how to test my SDL in a way that comes close to what KVM expects? One package which appears to use SDL is links, which does work fine in a terminal window but I don't know if I'm actually exercising the SDL facility or not, mostly it just looks like a curses app. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
