severity 315722 important
thanks
[Sorry for the late reply, I've been busy lately]
Which libsdl1.2debian variant are you using? Are you possibly
using -oss? If so, could you please try it with -alsa or -all?
> Second test:
>
> I ran sarge prboom inside gdb and was astonished.
> Inside gdb, prboom freezes after some seconds of playing and there seems
> to be no way to regain control of the X11 session.
> Mouse and keyboard are ignored, apart from special key combinations. If
> I switch to a virtual terminal (say tty1: CTRL+ALT+F1), kill gdb, and
> switch back to my X11 display, then all I see is a frozen gnome2 desktop
> still at low resolution (the one used by prboom: 640x400): mouse is
> ignored, while keyboard is not and can be used to type commands inside
> the focused xterm.
> The only way out I could find was killing the X server with
> CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE...
>
> ____________
> Other tests:
>
> I recompiled prboom with debug symbols and no stripping.
> I reran the above described tests.
> Same results!
>
> OK, what did I fail to understand?
I strongly suspect the error inside the interaction with SDL's OSS interface.
I've never encountered that error and just replayed the first levels of Freedoom
and Doom I on two different systems and I cannot reproduce it.
Cheers,
Moritz
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