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README.QNX
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README by Mike Gorchak <mike@malva.ua>, <lestat@i.com.ua>
Last changed at 12 Aug 2003.
======================================================================
OpenGL:
OpenGL works well and is stable, but fullscreen mode has not been
heavily tested yet.
If you have QNX RtP version 6.1.0 or above you must download the
Photon3D runtime from http://developers.qnx.com or install it from the
public repository or the public CD, available with QNX. OS versions
below 6.1.0 are not supported.
When creating an OpenGL context, software renderer mode is artifi-
cially selected (QSSL made acceleration only for Voodoo boards in
fullscreen mode, sorry but I don't have this board to test OpenGL -
maybe it works or maybe not :)). If you want acceleration - you can
remove one line in the source code: find the file SDL_ph_video.c and
remove the following
OGLAttrib[OGLargc++]=PHOGL_ATTRIB_FORCE_SW;
line in the ph_SetupOpenGLContext() function or change the argument to
PHOGL_ATTRIB_FORCE_HW or PHOGL_ATTRIB_FAVOR_HW.
======================================================================
Wheel and multi-button mouses:
Photon emits keyboard events (key up and down) when the mouse
wheel is moved. The key_scan field appears valid, and it contains zero.
That is a basic method of detecting mouse wheel events under Photon.
It looks like a hack, but it works for me :) on various PC configura-
tions.
I've tested it on:
1. Genius Optical NetScroll/+ (1 wheel)
2. A4Tech Optical GreatEye WheelMouse, model: WOP-35. (2 wheels + 2
additional buttons). The wheel for vertical scrolling works as usu-
al, but the second wheel for horizontal scrolling emits two sequen-
tial events up or down, so it can provide faster scrolling than the
first wheel. Additional buttons don't emit any events, but it looks
like they're handled by photon in an unusual way - like click to
front, but works not with any window, looks like bug-o-feature :).
======================================================================
CDROM handling issues:
Access to CDROM can only be provided with 'root' privileges. I
can't do anything about that, /dev/cd0 has brw------- permissions and
root:root rights.
======================================================================
Video Overlays:
Overlays can flicker during window movement, resizing, etc. It
happens because the photon driver updates the real window contents be-
hind the overlay, then draws the temporary chroma key color over the
window contents. It can be done without using the chroma key but that
causes the overlay to always be on top. So flickering during window
movement is preferred instead.
Double buffering code is temporarily disabled in the photon driver
code, because on my GF2-MX it can accidentally cause a buffer switch,
which causes the old frame to show. S3 Savage4 has the same problem,
but ATI Rage 128 doesn't. I think it can be fixed later. Current code
works very well, so maybe double buffering is not needed right now.
Something strange happens when you try to move the window with the
overlay beyond the left border of the screen. The overlay tries to
stay at position x=0, but when attempting to move it a bit more it
jumps to position x=-60 (on GF2-MX, on ATI Rage128 this value a bit
smaller). It's really strange, looks like the overlay doesn't like
negative coordinates.
=======================================================================
Shared library building:
A shared library can be built, but before running the autogen.sh
script you must manually delete the libtool.m4 stuff from the acinclu-
de.m4 file (it comes after the ESD detection code up to the end of the
file), because the libtool stuff in the acinclude.m4 file is very old
and doesn't know anything about QNX. Just remove it, then run
"libtoolize --force --copy" and after that run autogen.sh.
======================================================================
Some building issues:
Feel free to not use the --disable-shared configure option if you'
ve read the above comment about 'Shared library building'. Otherwise
this option is strongly recommended, as without it the sdl-config
script will be broken.
Run the configure script without x11 support, e.g.:
a) for OpenGL support:
./configure --prefix=/usr \
--disable-video-x11 \
--disable-shared
b) without OpenGL support:
./configure --prefix=/usr \
--disable-video-x11 \
--disable-shared \
--disable-video-opengl
In the test directory also run the ./configure script without
x11 support, e.g.:
./configure --with-sdl-prefix=/usr \
--with-sdl-exec-prefix=/usr \
--prefix=/usr --without-x