From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 16 08:13:56 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1BF116A421 for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:13:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rdivacky@vlk.vlakno.cz) Received: from vlakno.cz (vlk.vlakno.cz [62.168.28.247]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4E2413C457 for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:13:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rdivacky@vlk.vlakno.cz) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vlakno.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id E88CD669194; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:13:54 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at vlakno.cz Received: from vlakno.cz ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (vlk.vlakno.cz [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id H7VNl9cl1p4I; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:13:54 +0200 (CEST) Received: from vlk.vlakno.cz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vlakno.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE22C668DE7; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:13:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from rdivacky@localhost) by vlk.vlakno.cz (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l9G8DruF025414; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:13:53 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from rdivacky) Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:13:53 +0200 From: Roman Divacky To: john carlton Message-ID: <20071016081353.GA25340@freebsd.org> References: <77653.26777.qm@web61325.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <77653.26777.qm@web61325.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Update on my issue. X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:13:57 -0000 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