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• Mephisto at 2005-10-10 10:08
  While updating the sound patch for linux i found a few issues i would like to share with you...
  *) The mouse doesn't seem to work on linux in the 20051009 releases. This is for both duke and sw. I dont know what causes this (yet). It's not a general input bug, cause joystick works. Duke3d gives this in the console output though:
  

  CONTROL_Startup: Mouse Present

  
  *) Duke3d crashes on load. This seems to be caused by libpng using to the crc32 function in the build engine for some reason. Commenting out this function solves the problem. I have not tried this on SW, since i didn't have the problem there.
  *) Duke doesn't load old saves anymore. When trying to load 20050531 saves, it tells me they are corrupt...
  *) It would be nice if the game would load the sw.cfg/DUKE3D.CFG in the base folder if none is found in the home folder. I had to copy it over manually to get my settings back...
  
  I like the gtk2 startup window and the voxel sprites tho :) Good job on this. If you can fix the mouse bug, or point me to the place where i can fix this myself, i can finally play that wanton destruction addon someone pointed to in this forum. Pretty funny that they came up with that after so many years :)
  
  I'll post the sound patch after the mouse is working again, so i can put the mouse fix in that patch as well.
• Paralogos at 2005-10-10 17:54

  Patch for the mouse

  Hi,
  I got the mouse working. Two code lines in sdllayer.c got mixed up, and the debugging switch for compiling is still enabled. In the Makefile, change
  

  RELEASE ?= 0

  
  into
  

  RELEASE ?= 1

  
  and apply this patch:
  

  
  
  --- jfbuild_src_20051009/src/sdlayer.c	2005-10-09 15:23:00.000000000 +0200
  
  +++ build/src/sdlayer.c	2005-10-09 22:48:37.000000000 +0200
  
  @@ -486,8 +486,8 @@ int initmouse(void)
  
   	initprintf("Initialising mouse\n");
  
   
  
   	// grab input
  
  -	grabmouse(1);
  
   	moustat=1;
  
  +	grabmouse(1);
  
   
  
   	return 0;
  
   }
  
  

• Paralogos at 2005-10-10 17:57

  mouse grab on linux... (and some other things)

  Oh, I forgot to mention: Both apply to the jfbuild port, that's where all the magic happens. :D
  
  ~T
• Mephisto at 2005-10-10 23:30
  thanks :)
• ducon at 2006-06-24 16:37

  Re: Patch for the mouse

  Hi,
  I got the mouse working. Two code lines in sdllayer.c got mixed up, and the debugging switch for compiling is still enabled. In the Makefile, change
  

  RELEASE ?= 0

  
  into
  

  RELEASE ?= 1

  Already done.

  and apply this patch:

  
  
  > patch -p0 < mini.patch
  
  patching file build/src/sdlayer.c
  
  patch: **** malformed patch at line 11:     return 0;
  
  

  
  
  What
• Mephisto at 2006-06-26 08:09

  mouse grab on linux... (and some other things)

  the mouse fix is included in the sound patch that you already have applied. this is probably a config file issue. the first thing i would check is this:
  
  [Controls]
  ControllerType = 1
  
  (1 is mouse+kb, 2 is joystick+kb, i think 0 is kb-only)
• ducon at 2006-06-26 17:17
  Yes, that