> On Tuesday 16 September 2003 21:17, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > There is a game on my Gentoo machine that my son plays sometimes. I
> > built a new kernel a few days ago and apparently (I guess) I forgot to
> > choose something to get this to work. What is SDL (or than Simple
> > DirectMedia Layer) and where would I make a change to get this to work
> > again?
>
> USE="joystick" emerge libsdl
>
> There was a new libsdl package made available recently that now obeys the
> "joystick" USE flag. Either that or "joystick" was removed from
> the default
> USE flags - I believe it to be the former but have not checked. There are
> several games that have the same problem. I just added "joystick"
> to my USE
> flags in make.conf and can now forget about it.
>
> Regards,
> Jason
Thanks Jason. I had no idea this was from a library. Did a new version of
this library just come out, get emerged in, and then because I didn't
previously have joystick in my make.conf file I lost this capability? That's
a bummer! ;-)
OK, I'll check this out later today. Thanks very much!
- Mark
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