From: "Jim C. Brown" <jma5@umd.edu>
To: bobb@absamail.co.za, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] re: svga_helper
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 16:09:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050705200912.GA18456@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200507051742.15229.bobb@absamail.co.za>
On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 05:42:15PM +0000, Bob Barry wrote:
> I googled and found out what it was, and re-installed svgalib
> to get the module built against my current kernel. Then I tried
> qemu and was stunned to see it take my full screen. And then
> I tried to get out of it, and _nothing_ on the keyboard would
> respond. I finally had to reset the machine. Is this the
> replacement for SDL?
>
No. qemu still uses SDL. It does not support svgalib at all.
However, SDL does support svgalib as an output device. Try getting a different
SDL and seeing what that does for you. Probably you want to recompile SDL and
tell it to support the X output render.
> I tried again, from a terminal session: full-screen display was
> impressive, and the win98 login screen accepted a few characters
> then froze. I was happy to be able to get out of the terminal
> session normally.
>
> Is the cvs code working for most people?
>
Yep.
> Thanks,
>
> Bob Barry
>
--
Infinite complexity begets infinite beauty.
Infinite precision begets infinite perfection.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-05 20:18 UTC|newest]
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2005-07-05 17:42 [Qemu-devel] re: svga_helper Bob Barry
2005-07-05 20:09 ` Jim C. Brown [this message]
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2005-07-10 16:43 Bob Barry
2005-07-10 18:03 ` Jim C. Brown
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