Bug 666558 – games-emulation/dolphin-9999 Crash on exit with SDL enabled

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Simon Levermann (sonOfRa) 2018-09-19 13:52:37 UTC]

When SDL is enabled in Dolphin, and configuring a Gamepad (xbox 360 in my case) to use SDL, the emulator crashes on exit, if a gamepad is attached. Detaching it before exiting fixes it. I reported the bug upstream here: https://bugs.dolphin-emu.org/issues/11399.

They say that SDL support is legacy, and this matches with a discussion I had in their IRC channel, where they said that SDL support is generally only present for *BSD, and Linux should be using evdev instead.

Maybe the SDL use-flag should be default-disabled (or even masked) so that evdev is used instead.

[Comment 1 Larry the Git Cow 2018-09-19 22:17:13 UTC]

The bug has been closed via the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=e58cf552ba60b6401242ee5e07de53659d34ee56

commit e58cf552ba60b6401242ee5e07de53659d34ee56
Author:     Simon Levermann <[e-mail]>
AuthorDate: 2018-09-19 14:14:14 +0000
Commit:     Sergei Trofimovich <[e-mail]>
CommitDate: 2018-09-19 22:17:05 +0000

    games-emulation/dolphin: Disable SDL by default
    
    The desktop profile enables SDL by default, and it's likely that the
    desktop profile is being used on a computer that uses dolphin. SDL is
    legacy according to upstream and evdev should be used instead.
    
    Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.49, Repoman-2.3.10
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/666558
    Signed-off-by: Simon Levermann <[e-mail]>
    Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/9914

 games-emulation/dolphin/dolphin-9999.ebuild | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

[Comment 2 Larry the Git Cow 2018-09-22 17:04:38 UTC]

The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=239230b6fe0340b39e7e9cd51037eb826a009d74

commit 239230b6fe0340b39e7e9cd51037eb826a009d74
Author:     Sergei Trofimovich <[e-mail]>
AuthorDate: 2018-09-22 16:34:15 +0000
Commit:     Sergei Trofimovich <[e-mail]>
CommitDate: 2018-09-22 17:04:30 +0000

    games-emulation/dolphin: drop unsupported USE=sdl, bug #666558
    
    As reported by Simon Levermann in https://bugs.gentoo.org/666558
    SDL backend handles justicks weaker than default evdev and is
    there only for *BSDs.
    
    Reported-by: Simon Levermann
    Bug: https://bugs.dolphin-emu.org/issues/11399
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/666558
    Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.49, Repoman-2.3.10

 games-emulation/dolphin/dolphin-9999.ebuild | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)