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Received: from sloth.swcp.com (sloth.swcp.com [198.59.115.25]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id IAA18622 for <executor@nacm.com>; Thu, 7 Sep 1995 08:14:49 -0700 Received: from iclone.UUCP (uucp@localhost) by sloth.swcp.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with UUCP id JAA03017; Thu, 7 Sep 1995 09:14:34 -0600 Received: from gwar.ardi.com by mailhost with smtp (nextstep Smail3.1.29.0 #11) id m0sqiYe-000YbDC; Thu, 7 Sep 95 09:08 MDT Received: by gwar.ardi.com (linux Smail3.1.28.1 #5) id m0sqiY5-000GOkC; Thu, 7 Sep 95 09:07 MDT Message-Id: <m0sqiY5-000GOkC@gwar.ardi.com> Date: Thu, 7 Sep 95 09:07 MDT From: mat@ardi.com (Mat Hostetter) To: "Jeremy William Yackel" <jwyackel@acs.ucalgary.ca> Cc: zinc@zifi.genetics.utah.edu (zinc), executor@nacm.com Subject: Re: executor-svga In-Reply-To: <9509070323.AA131790@acs3.acs.ucalgary.ca> References: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950906193711.4308A-100000@zifi.genetics.utah.edu> <9509070323.AA131790@acs3.acs.ucalgary.ca> Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Jeremy" == Jeremy William Yackel <jwyackel@acs.ucalgary.ca> writes: Jeremy> Ok, I installed version 1.2.7 of the svga libraries and Jeremy> it still just gives me a blank screen. Other than that, I Jeremy> also upgraded to 1.3.21 and it still doesn't work for me. Jeremy> I suppose it just doesn't work with my video card Jeremy> (Trident 8900C)? We're still working on it. There appear to be two problems which might be relevant: 1) vga_safetyfork(), an svgalib routine, causes the forked child to lose I/O permissions for the video card. That causes our Mach64 version to hang, and may do it on most other boards (all but the Mach32?) 2) Apparently svgalib 1.27 is incompatible with libc 5.2.8, and perhaps other libc versions as well. We'll figure out a workaround for (1). The svgalib maintainers will have to work on (2). Has anyone else out there with a Mach32 tried E/L/S? It works fine on my Mach32. -Mat