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Received: from pandemonium.jcu.edu.au (pandemonium.jcu.edu.au [137.219.28.12]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id FAA11411 for <executor@nacm.com>; Sat, 2 Sep 1995 05:38:11 -0700 Received: (from astfgl@localhost) by pandemonium.jcu.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id WAA03276 for executor@nacm.com; Sat, 2 Sep 1995 22:34:49 +1000 From: Glen Harris <astfgl@pandemonium.jcu.edu.au> Message-Id: <199509021234.WAA03276@pandemonium.jcu.edu.au> Subject: Re: E/L/o7 SVGA To: executor@nacm.com Date: Sat, 2 Sep 1995 22:34:48 +1000 (EST) In-Reply-To: <199509021016.AA01421@stt_even.let.ruu.nl> from "Wessel.Kraaij@let.ruu.nl" at Sep 2, 95 12:16:12 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 599 Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk > Unfortunately it crashes and I have to reboot because the screen > turns black and I can't change to another VC. I tried to capture the > stderr output in a file, but that seems to disable a svga app to > change to graphics mode. > > Configuration: > Linux 1.2.1 with serial mouse > svgalib1.2.7 > S3 card with GenDac Ramdac > > The svga version of DOOM runs fine .. Ditto, for a 1.3.7 kernel and ATT21C498 S3 2Mb card. I can switch to alternate consoles, login and start up X11. The process table shows two executor processes running, I can kill them but nothing restores the text mode.