no-reply@allegro.cc (Aapo Rantalainen) — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:04:53 +0000

Hi, I'm trying to get Allegro4 working on Maemo5 (Debian based Linux, run on Nokia N900, which is ARM device with 800x480px screen).

I have compiled allegro-4.4.2.tar.gz (and svn allegro-4.4=r14751).

I got it compiled and some games and demos running, but there are some critical issues:

*In fullscreen allegro grabs the keyboard
'Grabs' = system wide shortcuts e.g. ctrl+backspace (as ALT+TAB on desktop) nor screenshots with ctrl+shift+p are not working.
These are working in windowed mode.

*Sounds use too much processing power
If I have file /usr/lib/allegro/4.4.2/alleg-alsadigi.so sound playing is working, but e.g. demos/shooter game will run with 7 fps. When file is removed (and audio is not played) game runs with 28 fps.

*Fullscreen is not fullscreen. Window manager's top-panel is still visible, but not focusable. (This might be totally window manager's fault).
Check: http://img840.imageshack.us/img840/9195/allegro442maemo5fullscr.png
(screencapture taken over vnc)

no-reply@allegro.cc (Peter Wang) — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 16:20:49 +0000

Cool. You're on your own though.

You can try reducing the mixer quality, see ~/.allegrorc. Or edit _sound_hq in src/sound.c

allegro-4.4.2 on maemo5/N900