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Re: linux - SVGA & 1.99p
On Fri, 29 Sep 1995, zinc wrote:
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> howdy folks,
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> well, i've recently tried a few things that have made me even more
> happy about executor.
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> 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.
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> 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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