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From: Bob Barry <bobb@absamail.co.za>
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Subject: [Qemu-devel] re: svga_helper
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On Tue, 5 Jul 2005 16:09 Jim C. Brown wrote:
> ...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.

That sounds spot on.  But it doesn't work.  The cause of the problem was updating
all packages (Gentoo "emerge world") which wiped my qemu-friendly sdl.  I've
tried installing sdl-1.2.7 and sdl-1.2.8, with both the Gentoo installer and by
"./configure, make, make install", with x specifically enabled.  When I try to run qemu
after compiling sdl with svgalib disabled, it complains "can't start sdl, exiting".  When I
try to run qemu after compiling sdl with svgalib enabled, it complains "can't find svgalib-helper".
It never recognizes the availability of X.  But after every compile of sdl, both with and
without svgalib enabled, I checked that applications in the SDL-1.2.8/test directory would
run - and they always use X and run beautifully.  It seems like something in the qemu
"SDL-starter" is demanding svgalib.

Suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Bob Barry