Matrox cards

[princec]

We still can't get LWJGL working on Matrox cards and we've got no real ideas why.

It might be in the gamma code; it might be in the bit of code that finds out what display modes are available - we're just not sure.

Who can diagnose it?

Cas

[whome]

See my posts at the end. I have Matrox G400 suxor card.
http://www.puppygames.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=208
http://www.javagaming.org/cgi-bin/JGNetForums/YaBB.cgi?board=LWJGL;action=display;num=1047037254

I've isolated few problems and javagaming forum has a copy of testreport. I can run more detailed tests at home with a special taylored .dll files if necessary.

[princec]

Ok, it looks like you've isolated at least part of the problem. We will have to use a different method of display device enumeration. That should at least get us to the next stage.

I take it you can't get Alien Flux to run?

In which case I'll build a special dll for you to try...

Cas

[princec]

Got an experimental .dll ready here. It requires the -ea switch to run of course. Try AF out with it and see.

Cas

[whome]

I tried early versions of AF, but it failed indeed. I will try it this evening at home (GMT+2 timezone here) and report findings.

Could you please post here a link where I can download an experimental version of AF. And links to other tweaked versions. I currently have (regular) lwjglv0.7 lib installed.

I take it its not this link on AFDemo page.
http://www.puppygames.net/downloads/SetupAlienFlux.exe

[cfmdobbie]

(Cas, you gotta sort out that stylesheet...)

whome, the experimental DLL is linked under the word "here", even though it just looks like plain text!

[PlanetMongo]

Maybe I can help!  I'm running a Matrox G450 at home on my windows box if you need some more help.  

[princec]

Sure would be nice if you could help out here.
Snag the zipped AF jar:
http://www.puppygames.net/downloads/AlienFlux-full-1.4.zip

and the debug dll, above,
and run from a command prompt:

c:\xap-full-1.4> java -ea -jar AlienFlux.jar

And let me know what happens.

Heeey.. i thought you'd vanished off the face of the internet?

Cas

[whome]

[Matrox Millennium G400 ver 1.1.3 Feb 7 2003, Win2k]
Here is my test report. I tested AF-full.zip, AF-trial-win-demo and last run Riddles chman demo once again. No luck.
http://koti.mbnet.fi/akini/java/lwjgl/

I just found the first AF version I run. AlienFlux.jar is dated on 2003-04-09/4296KB. It at least started and mainmenu works ok. Playscreen can show header, footer and background graphics. But then sprites are not displayed. At startup, it will print a long list of display modes to the console. Current version cannot go even from start.

I can test more if you have something else to install.

UPDATE: run JDK1.4.2, JDK1.4.1_01, JDK1.4.0 but same results.

[princec]

Hm. So it just prints one line with the debug dll and that's it???
Damn. So it must still be going wrong really really early.


Cas

[whome]

Just throw me a an another debug dll and I will test it.

And yep, it did practically nothing and then was back in dos prompt. No exceptions or core dumps. There is no any delays in it but jumps back to dos within 1-2 sec.

[PlanetMongo]

Heeey.. i thought you'd vanished off the face of the internet?

Downloading now, will try it tonight.  I no longer have access at home, I now only browse from work, the way God intended.

[princec]

Hot diggety dang! I am a twat. The dll I uploaded wasn't in fact fixed at all!

There's a new one up in the same place (http://www.puppygames.net/downloads/lwjgl_d.zip) which should be better. Fingers crossed.

Cas

[princec]

Arse and double arse. That zip was corrupted; I've just uploaded a new one.

Cas

[whome]

See here a new test report with a full output log. Now it had more data to display. Feel free to give more test instructions if you need additional info.
http://koti.mbnet.fi/akini/java/lwjgl/