ate: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 20:07:10 +0200 From: Hibernatus Subject: [SDL] BUG: changing video mode in opengl + windows In WIN_GL_SetupWindow (SDL12/src/video/wincommon/SDL_wingl.c) you call WIN_GL_ResetWindow when SetPixelFormat fails. WIN_GL_ResetWindow cannot properly work in its current state, because there are several things to update once you've created a new window. At least DirectInput doesn't work anymore here (which is somewhat annoying for the player :). I think you can simply remove that function. Many games don't try to recover from that exception, that's why the newest ATI drivers emulate 16 bpp display in 32 bpp mode so the error never occurs (but the games may run much slower). Having SDL_SetVideoMode return NULL would be better than actually setting the video mode and losing focus, directinput and maybe directsound too. It also made my previous drivers crash (when switching from 32 bpp windowed to 16 bpp fullscreen).

The reason these libraries are built outside of the standard XFree86
tree is so that they can be linked as shared object code directly into
SDL without causing any symbol collisions with code in the application.

You can't link static library code into shared libraries on non-x86
Linux platforms.  Since these libraries haven't become standard yet,
we'll just include them directly.

These sources are synchronized with XFree86 4.2.1