Re: [Qemu-devel] re: svga_helper

[Jim C. Brown]

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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