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Re: [Qemu-devel] re: svga_helper
From: |
Jim C. Brown |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] re: svga_helper |
Date: |
Tue, 5 Jul 2005 16:09:12 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.4i |
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
>
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