Commercial-OSS-on-Solaris patch... --ryan. Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 23:06:40 -0500 From: Shawn Walker <binarycrusader@gmail.com> To: sdl@libsdl.org Subject: [SDL] [PATCH] Audio Detection Bug When using the OSS commercial drivers under Solaris 10, SDL will not properly initialise OSS audio support (dsp) if /dev/sound exists. Under Solaris (as far as I understand) /dev/sound is provided as a means of accessing a BSD style audio device, not the OSS device. SDL assumes that if /dev/sound exists, then it must be running on a Linux 2.4 system and should make the dsp device path /dev/sound/dsp. This is wrong. When using the OSS commercial drivers under Solaris, the dsp device is always referenced as /dev/dsp normally. My proposed fix is to stat the dsp device in /dev/sound to make sure it exists, before assuming /dev/sound/dsp as the audio device: http://icculus.org/~eviltypeguy/SDL_audiodev.patch I'm sure there may be a better way to do it, but the above patch is what worked for me. --=20 Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst binarycrusader@gmail.com - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/

Wish list for the 1.3 development branch:

 * Use /etc/fb.modes, if available, like GGI does
 * Add mousewheel events (new unified event architecture?)
 * DirectInput joystick support needs to be implemented
 * Be able to enumerate and select available audio and video drivers
 * Fullscreen video mode support for MacOS X
 * Explicit vertical retrace wait (maybe separate from SDL_Flip?)
 * Shaped windows, windows without borders
 * Multiple windows, multiple display support
 * SDL_INIT_EVENTTHREAD on Windows and MacOS?
 * Add a timestamp to events
 * Use RDTSC for timer resolution on x86 hardware
 * Add audio input API
 * Add hardware accelerated scaled blit
 * Add hardware accelerated alpha blits
 * Redesign blitting architecture to allow blit plugins

In the jump from 1.2 to 1.3, we should change the SDL_Rect members to
int and evaluate all the rest of the datatypes.  This is the only place
we should do it though, since the 1.2 series should not break binary
compatibility in this way.

Requests:
 * PCM and CDROM volume control (deprecated, but possible)