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Re: ANNOUNCE (Linux): svgalib "soon"




Executor/Linux/SVGAlib is now available as a "Bleeding Edge" release.
Currently it's on ftp.ardi.com.  It should soon be on vorlon.mit.edu.
Alan asked why we require kernel 1.3.15 instead of 1.2.x.  The answer
is in BleedingEdge/README, which is produced below.

Fun games to run under SVGAlib include Maelstrom, Apeiron and Solarian.

	--Cliff
	ctm@ardi.com

README:
The README file that used to be here was inadvertently destroyed.
We will try to bring this one up to speed soon.  In the meantime, here
is are some comments about the SVGAlib port:

In general, if you're not already familiar with SVGAlib under Linux, you
shouldn't try running 1.99o7.  Wait for 1.99p and we'll have some nicer
installation instructions.

The SVGAlib port requires kernel 1.3.15 or later to run.  This is necessary
because Executor/SVGAlib needs to be able to get a SIGIO sent to it when
the state of the mouse changes.  In older kernels this worked only for bus
mice.  So if you have a bus mouse you *may* be able to get by with an older
kernel, but since our testing machine has a serial mouse, we had to upgrade.

The SVGAlib shared libraries that we use are 1.27.  This is a very new version
of SVGAlib (we pulled it out of Sunsite's Incoming directory, but it may
be in its proper home by now).  We've had some trouble with this new version
of SVGAlib, and in fact, we can't get its own test programs to run.  In
addition we've successfully run E/L/SVGA on a Mach32 card, but on a Cirrus
based card E/L/SVGA died.  We're looking into these problems and hope to
have them straightened out by the time 1.99p ships.


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