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- >>>>> "Rachel" == Rachel Polanskis <rachel@virago.org.au> writes:
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- Rachel> My problem is that I can see there is the HFV volume there
- Rachel> on the CD, but I can't access it. It just looks like a
- Rachel> regular file. If I try to open it by double clicking on
- Rachel> it, my text editor just coughs.
-
- Rachel> How do I access the HFV volume on the CD from Executor?
-
- You can either put a symlink to the CD's big HFV file in
- /usr/local/lib/executor/foo.hfv, copy it to /usr/local/lib/executor/
- (but it's big!), or add it to your MacVolumes environment variable.
- MacVolumes is a semicolon-separated list of devices and HFV files to
- scan on startup. So under bash you could type something like:
-
- export MacVolumes=/sparc/cdrom/foo/bar/maccdrom.hfv
-
- and then run Executor. You can of course also put that line in your
- bash startup files.
-
- Rachel> I wondered how I could allow a user to access executor
- Rachel> under linux, but be able to add or delete files without
- Rachel> having to be Super User.
-
- Rachel> Should I create a special group or user? Perhaps a
- Rachel> special login, with a home directory that just does mac
- Rachel> stuff?
-
- Either approach would work, if you adjust the file ownerships and
- permissions properly. Groups are the common way to solve this
- problem.
-
- Rachel> Finally, the SVGAlib version under linux does not work for
- Rachel> me at all. When I run it, the video mode changes to I
- Rachel> don't know what and it is unrecoverable.
-
- SVGAlib has many, many problems. Either it can't handle your card
- correctly, or there's some problem with your libvga.config. You might
- check to see if you have the latest version.
-
- Rachel> Matter of fact - I tried the SVGAlib command
- Rachel> "restoretextmode" and it crashed my system - froze it up
- Rachel> completely. The silly SVGA game "abuse" works OK, but
- Rachel> executor and other SVGA apps don't.
-
- Did you do "savetextmode" before running Executor? I think you have
- to do that for "restoretextmode" to work.
-
- I've never tried abuse, but maybe it just uses plain VGA 320x200 and
- doesn't stress the SVGA modes at all?
-
- Rachel> I can't find any decent documentation on SVGAlib anywhere,
- Rachel> and no answers on USENET from people who have seen this
- Rachel> problem before.
-
- Heh, join the club. :-) The future of direct graphics access under
- Linux may end up being XFree86's DGA extensions. SVGAlib has too many
- problems and just doesn't seem to be going anywhere. There are some
- talented people working on SVGAlib, but the way it's evolved it's a
- mess inside and out. The only important drawbacks I've seen with DGA
- are that you have to have an X server running (consuming more memory),
- and that the API is arguably too minimalist.
-
- -Mat
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