Update on my issue.

Roman Divacky rdivacky at freebsd.org
Tue Oct 16 01:13:57 PDT 2007


On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 08:39:53PM -0700, john carlton wrote:
> Ok, so now on the same issue of svgalib under linux
> compat I found out 2 things.  First I don't need
> devices set up under the compat/linux folder.  Second
> I found Fedora Core 4 libraries for svgalib on a
> redhat ftp under extras.  My problem now is much the
> same but now when I try to run I get the same "Not
> running in a graphics capable console" error message
> and instead of a core dump it corrupts the screen
> forcing reboot.  Is there a linux_compat distrib that
> already comes with svgalib setup?  Or should I figure
> out how to get fc-4_9 working?  Is there a device I
> can link to to make it find a "graphics capable console"?

I didnt investigate this at all but I think that fbsd kernel
does not provide anything svgalib compatible so unless we
emulate this in linux compat layer this won't work.

I think this is not trivial amount of work. and as far as I know
this has not been done.

roman


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