From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dptrq-0008Ag-Si for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2005 16:18:07 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dptrf-000838-FQ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2005 16:17:57 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dptrf-0007zV-Al for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2005 16:17:55 -0400 Received: from [128.8.10.162] (helo=po0.wam.umd.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Dptq1-00030a-5V for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2005 16:16:13 -0400 Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 16:09:12 -0400 From: "Jim C. Brown" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] re: svga_helper Message-ID: <20050705200912.GA18456@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> References: <200507051742.15229.bobb@absamail.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200507051742.15229.bobb@absamail.co.za> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: bobb@absamail.co.za, qemu-devel@nongnu.org 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.