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