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Re: linux - SVGA & 1.99p



On Fri, 29 Sep 1995, zinc wrote:

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> howdy folks,
> 
> well, i've recently tried a few things that have made me even more  
> happy about executor.  
> 
> the SVGA ELF version i tried works with the new SVGA lib.  i'm running
> 1.2.11, ELF, ELF compiled SVGA libs (1.2.7), with an STB Powergraph 64
> card (S3 based, Trio64 chipset).

Thats the exact same card I have.  It's works just great for me too,
except for the fact that it wont run at anything greater than 640x480--
but this is a limitation of SVGAlib, as I understand it.


> 
> none of the a.out programs i have work with the new lib.  however, and
> this seems a bit odd, ld (or is it ldd?), is able to deal with the two
> versions.  i have the old libvga.so.1 in /usr/local/lib and i put the
> new stuff in /usr/lib. this seems to work ok.  
> 
> the major problem i have now is that the console is unusable after
> using executor-svga.  the screen is completely messed up and the only
> way i can get it back is by rebooting, not my favorite thing to do
> frequently.   i'm also running SVGATextMode to get a better display on
> the console so perhaps this is a problem...

Sorry to waste bandwidth on the executor mailing list, but I thought this
may be on interest to others who see the same problem--
I also had this problem of the console being unusable, and have found a few
different solutions to it...  First off, I realized that if you have an
X-Windows open on another console, after you exit executor and the screen
is messed up, first switch to the X-Windows console (ALT-F7), then
switch back to the messed up console (CTL-ALT-F2)...  Should be normal again!

Then later, I realized that you can use the following line in 
/etc/vga/libvga.config to fix this problem without the above mentioned
hassel:

ramdac att20c498

Things work fine now---  I don't think I actually have this ramdac in the 
STB Powergraph (i found no mention of a ramdac in the documentation for 
the board), but it appears to be close enough, and works charms!

> 
> in other news, 1.99p seems great.  it remembers what windows were open
> after i launch an app and remembers things i add to the hot band as
> well.  these are both great improvements.  i'm not sure if this is
> just me, but it also seems to run a bit faster now.
> 
> anyway, this is just great for me.  i'm looking forward to pounding
> out my second publication using Word under executor, hopefully in the
> next month!    
> 
> hope things are going ok for you folks at ardi,
> 
> - -pjf


I'm loving the SVGA version (despite the small resolution), keep up the 
magic ardi!

Jeff Halverson


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