> Hi folks,
>
> Some of you perhaps read the thread about my svgalib screen sync problems
> with the DSTN 640x480 screen of my laptop and ct65535 chipset.
> One of the problems I could solve:
> My console isn't scrumbled any more when I switch back from graphics to
> textmode, I achieved this by
Try on the linux laptops web site, they have lots of docs from people
who've had success, I'm sorry I can't remember their address, I'll have a
poke around on the net and see if I can dig it up for you.
Regards,
Peter Firmstone.
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Daniel Reuter wrote:
> Hello Debianers,
>
>
On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 09:59:40PM +, José Luis Gómez Dans generated a
stream of 1s and 0s:
> Hi!
> I have so far been experiencing erratic svgalib behaviour.
> Basically, if I call something like zgv, I get the following message:
> c172d
> Int 0x10 is not in rom (:)
> No VESA bi
Carlos writes:
> How can I adjust the time between a call and another when using the
> persist option with pppd?
Yes. The line
holdoff 100
in /etc/ppp/peers/provider will tell pppd to wait 100 seconds before
retrying the 'provider' connection.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dancing H
Daniel Ruoso wrote:
>
> Does anybody know where can I find a good FAQ about SVGALIB, or (that
> would be better) can explain me, how to run svgalib as a normal user?
My understanding is that svgalib must run with root privileges. More
info: http://siva.usc.edu/~brion/linux/svgalib-dev-faq-2.html
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On Sat, 12 Jun 1999, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> Raymond A. Ingles hat gesagt: // Raymond A. Ingles wrote:
> > I sometimes run zgv and Maelstrom, but the main reason I want SVGAlib is
> > to try to run GLQuake. The Quake-HOWTO says I need SVGAlib to get there.
[...]
As I mentioned in another me
Raymond A. Ingles hat gesagt: // Raymond A. Ingles wrote:
>
> I've got a Riva TNT card, and I'm using the X server and OpenGL lib from
> nVidia. Everything's fine in X, but SVGAlib has problems. I upgraded to
> SVGAlib 1.3.1 from unstable, but still there are issues.
>
> I sometimes run zgv
On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
> If I force NV3 (Riva) mode, I get a >blank screen.
> It still responds to keypresses and I can telnet in, but >until I
> >CNTRL-ALT-DEL the screen is hosed.
>
> This sounds familiar, the same thing happens to me when I tried to run
> svga-doom with my
Sorry for replying to my own post - this is to let everyone know that the
problem has been solved.
It seems that /dev/ttyS0 has permissions set for group dialout of which I
(Ivan) was not a member. When I added myself to the group and followed Joey
Hesse's suggestions from the bug mailing list
ivan wrote:
>
> I have now decided to use svgalib but already have run into trouble !
>
I think you may need the svgalibg1-dev package. The *-dev packages seem
to contain the header files and the static libraries required to
complile your own programs. Note this packages depends on libc6-dev,
w
In foo.debian-user, you wrote:
> I have now decided to use svgalib but already have run into trouble !
>
> /* programme svgatest.c */
>
> #include
> #include "vga.h"
>
> main()
> {
>
> /* code */
>
> }
>
> #: gcc svgatest.c -O2 -lvga
>
> Programme won't compile because
> a) Can't find
M.C. Vernon wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Does svgalibwork with such cards? Mine is an ATIXpert98
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matthew
>
I couldn't get my Xpression+ TV2PC card to work with the Mach64
chipset defined, but it worked just fine if I defined the chipset
as VESA (up to 800x600).
-Mitch
On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 05:57:26PM -0500, Ryan Kirkpatrick wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
>
> > Matrox Millenium isn't particularly well supported by SVGAlib at the moment.
> > I have an improved patch here, but I'm a bit wary of some trimmed security
> > patches which are in
On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
> Matrox Millenium isn't particularly well supported by SVGAlib at the moment.
> I have an improved patch here, but I'm a bit wary of some trimmed security
> patches which are in the upstream release - the fewer patches we apply the
> better, however we
On Sun, Sep 20, 1998 at 10:12:55PM +, Ruud de Bruin wrote:
> When running "gs" as user, I receive the following error message:
>
> SVGALIB -- Cannot get I/O permissions.
>
> How can I solve this?
You have to set the suid bit (It's a security hole, your user could get root
rights if there's a
In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; from Ryan Kirkpatrick on Fri, Sep 18, 1998 at
07:35:44PM -0500
On Fri, Sep 18, 1998 at 07:35:44PM -0500, Ryan Kirkpatrick wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
>
> > > >Does "ldd squake.real" say anything useful?
> > >
> > > Er, que? (spot the ne
On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
> > >Does "ldd squake.real" say anything useful?
> >
> > Er, que? (spot the newbie sysadmin...)
>
> Which seems okay to me - the top one is the libc5 maths library, the bottom
> one is the libc5 C library and the middle one is the libc5 vga library.
On Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 01:23:18AM -0700, Chris Whitworth wrote:
> I forgot to mention that I'm a little new to this Linux admin business
> (as in running my own box; I've been using other ppls for ages)
>
> >I don't suppose "ldconfig" (as root) helps? You are runnning the
> programs
> >as root
I forgot to mention that I'm a little new to this Linux admin business
(as in running my own box; I've been using other ppls for ages)
>I don't suppose "ldconfig" (as root) helps? You are runnning the
programs
>as root aren't you - they need direct access to the video card (OTOH
plain
>vga pro
On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 08:54:22AM -0700, Chris Whitworth wrote:
> It doesn't work basically!
>
> It seems that the Mach64 libvga drivers as supplied on the Debian 2.0
> CD-Rom don't actually work (it crashes out with a segmentation fault
> when it attempts to initialise the display)
>
> If I s
> > > Note that you definitely should try to write the mode line manually,
> > > because
> > > you want to use the highest refresh rate possible with your monitor and
> > > video card.
> >
> > My First problem is that I have an ET4000, and it does not read modeline's
> > in
> > svgalib (It does
> On Mon, Jan 31, 1994 at 02:20:19PM +1300, Michael Beattie wrote:
H
> > Hi,
> >
> > After studying the docs for svgalib (to get a working 320x200x256 mode) I
> > have discovered a script with svgatextmode to get the vga registers and
> > create a mode for the libvga.et4000 file. Unfortu
On Mon, Jan 31, 1994 at 02:20:19PM +1300, Michael Beattie wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After studying the docs for svgalib (to get a working 320x200x256 mode) I
> have discovered a script with svgatextmode to get the vga registers and
> create a mode for the libvga.et4000 file. Unfortunately, it requires a
>
Olivier THARAN wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 29, 1997 at 12:49:32AM -0500, Paul Miller wrote:
> > This happens when a regular user runs a graphics program out of X - such
> > as squake... How can I fix this?
> >
> > svgalib: Cannot get I/O permissions.
>
> You need to make your program setuid root (becau
On Sat, Nov 29, 1997 at 12:49:32AM -0500, Paul Miller wrote:
> This happens when a regular user runs a graphics program out of X - such
> as squake... How can I fix this?
>
> svgalib: Cannot get I/O permissions.
You need to make your program setuid root (because svgalib wants access to
the video
"Joop Stakenborg" wrote:
>Hi, I am having some problems trying to run the demo programs from
>the svgalib1-dev package. After the compile I try to run the 'fun'
>program, here is the error I get:
>
>> abapc# ls -al fun
>> -rwsr-xr-x 1 jsg HT 13177 Oct 10 15:06 fun
This
Andrew Keen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> My question, my only problem, the fly in the ointment of Linux, the
> "black fly in my Chardonnay" is that when I want to run a svgalib
> program (X works) at the console it doesn't recognize it and then
> -screws- it up.. basically, it runs, but it doesn'
On Fri, 30 May 1997, Klaus Ethgen wrote:
> problem: If I start the game squake as user, I get the message:
>
> svgalib: Cannot open /dev/console.
> Exit -1
>
> If I start this game as root then everythink is ok. But I don't like to
> start any game as root. Also few weeks ago there was no proble
On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Lord Of The CLUTZ's wrote:
> Back when I was running slackware I had a program that used svgalib to view
> graphics, it was zgv... I got it off of sunsite... and now that I run debian
> it doesn't want to work... and I grabed the source and tryed to recompile
> it... and it
"Lord Of The CLUTZ's" writes:
-> Back when I was running slackware I had a program that used svgalib
-> to view graphics, it was zgv... I got it off of sunsite... and now
-> that I run debian it doesn't want to work... and I grabed the
-> source and tryed to recompile it ... and it didn't compile.
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