Re: GFX under Linux

[Mads Bondo Dydensborg <madsdyd@challenge.dk>]

On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Katie Lucas wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 03:40:50PM +0600, Mark D'voo wrote:
> > what was so hard about SDL??
> 
> The fact that while I download SDL occaisionally to see how it's
> getting on, nothing ever seems to compile. Here i have a nice shiny
> Redhat 7.2 system. I install the latest development RPM from the
> website, and get the "gears" demo. Configure works and then compiling
> it says:
> 
> SDL_dgavideo.lo(.text+0x14bc): undefined reference to `XDGAGetViewportStatus'

To me it seems that you are running a binary version of SDL that expects
that DGA X extension to be present in your system, which it is not.

I have DGA enabled;
[madsdyd@ripley madsdyd]$ xdpyinfo | grep -i dga
    XFree86-DGA
[madsdyd@ripley madsdyd]$

However, DGA is not very well supported on my system, and I do not use it
with SDL.

Try installing the SDL packages that came with your system, then compile
the demos.

-- 
Mads Bondo Dydensborg.                               madsdyd@challenge.dk
Unix is user-friendly; it's just a little particular about which users it is
friendly to.