Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 23:26:29 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Mike Batchelor <smujohnson@home.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux Emulation Message-ID: <20001128232629.F8051@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <000901c05a9e$12caff40$8ded4518@kldt1.bc.wave.home.com>; from smujohnson@home.com on Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 11:20:52PM -0800 References: <000901c05a9e$12caff40$8ded4518@kldt1.bc.wave.home.com>
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* Mike Batchelor <smujohnson@home.com> [001128 23:20] wrote: > Hi, > > A few days ago, BCray@SARCOM.COM wrote asking how well linux emulation works > under FreeBSD. Later, in responce, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > Most run very well, let us know if you have a problem. > > Well, I actually have a problem. First of all, I'm wondering if linux_base > for FreeBSD emulates glibc as well as libc5. That I am not sure. > > Anyways, I tried downloading snes9x 1.33a for Linux glibc and I can't get it > working. For those who don't know, > it's an SNES emulator which can run under x11. The X window loads up and > everything, the text which is displayed to the console appears, but nothing > happens after that (blank black window). > > And, for regular linux programs that use libvga.so, the only way I can fool > them to thinking it's a linux native is by creating symbolic links to > /usr/lib/libvga.so.1 from /compat/linux/......./libvga.so. Is there another > way to do this? brandelfing to linux doesn't seem to help. > > Thanks you guys! > > PS - If you have the time, please download a tarball of it from > www.snes9x.com if you feel your linux emulation is fully functional. Thanks > again We'd rather not waste time working on that when there's a working port in the ports tree of snes9x. As far as vgalib stuff, do you have an example of that? I don't think we support the svgalib stuff, but I could be wrong. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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