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Re: executor-svga
>>>>> "Jeremy" == Jeremy William Yackel <jwyackel@acs.ucalgary.ca> writes:
Jeremy> Ok, I installed version 1.2.7 of the svga libraries and
Jeremy> it still just gives me a blank screen. Other than that, I
Jeremy> also upgraded to 1.3.21 and it still doesn't work for me.
Jeremy> I suppose it just doesn't work with my video card
Jeremy> (Trident 8900C)?
We're still working on it. There appear to be two problems which
might be relevant:
1) vga_safetyfork(), an svgalib routine, causes the forked child to
lose I/O permissions for the video card. That causes our
Mach64 version to hang, and may do it on most other boards
(all but the Mach32?)
2) Apparently svgalib 1.27 is incompatible with libc 5.2.8, and perhaps
other libc versions as well.
We'll figure out a workaround for (1). The svgalib maintainers will
have to work on (2).
Has anyone else out there with a Mach32 tried E/L/S? It works fine on
my Mach32.
-Mat
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