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executor-svga, S3-928, and svgalib
>symptoms: executor-svga (p5) starts up, but the screen is messed up in
>two ways (at least), the print is staggered (an 'n' looks like three
>overlapping n's) and dialog boxes which should be centered on the
>screen are half off the screen (the left half is on the right side of
>my screen).
This was a common problem with all S3-based systems in svgalib.
The same thing happened with my S3 805 2mb board, with a variety of
programs (not just executor, but Maelstrom, zgv, etc).
>ldd: version 1.7.3
> libvga.so.1 (DLL Jump 1.2pl7) => /lib/libvga.so.1.2.7
> libc.so.4 (DLL Jump 4.5pl26) => /lib/libc.so.4.7.2
> libm.so.4 (DLL Jump 4.5pl26) => /lib/libm.so.4.6.27
This bug was fixed with svgalib 1.2.8. I'll bet that if you
upgrade to 1.2.7, your problem will go away.
Joe
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