Can't get SDL version to work on Debian

[peter]

I finally got GH1 to compile in SDL mode, and it works except that text is invisible.  Menus are there, you just can't see them.  So not very useful.

 I'm using Debian GNU/Linux, on an up-to-date "unstable" system.

 Has anyone seen that problem, or have any idea what might be going on?

 I posted about this on the mailing list a while ago.

[Tung Nguyen]

You have the right/up-to-date drivers for your graphics card, right? In particular, nVIDIA cards don't do too well with the placeholder "nv" driver that most Linux distros are packed with.

[peter]

That's a good point.  I could try it on another machine with an NVidia card.  I have hardware-accelerated openGL on my Radeon (AIW 7200), with xorg 7.0.  I've found that the open source ATI driver doesn't always look right, e.g. in TuxRacer or scorch3d.  (and it's been imperfect for years.  I think it's just Mesa vs. NVidia's high quality but non-Free driver.)

 BTW, I'd like to compliment you on your choice of sig.  I love Firefly, and that was a really good episode.

[Tung Nguyen]

Thanks. That's how justice is out on the frontier.

Browncoats are everywhere: you just gotta poke around some.