[BL] BL2 problems with links2 and with mouse in Xvesa
sindi keesan
keesan at sdf.lonestar.org
Fri Sep 3 15:55:52 EDT 2004
If I try to use links2 -g (graphical mode) SVGAlib in BL2 on one computer
everything hangs. It works fine on several other computers. Three other
SVGAlib programs (seejpeg, zgv which I set up with links as a viewer, and
bmv) work fine here. I have a serial mouse on com1 and set that up in
the SVGAlib config file.
Ialso a link from /dev/mouse to /dev/ttyS0. The mouse works on Com1
in DOS.
So I tried to see if the mouse worked in Xvesa in case that was causing
some problem and it did not. How do I set Xvesa to use a serial mouse?
The man page says nothing about this. I know psaux is the default.
I was then going to try links2 in Xvesa again after rebooting and now
Xvesa won't run either - Illegal instruction. I don't think I changed
anything related to Xvesa.
I do not have Steven's (or anyone's) plain X on this computer. I have the
three required libraries (just checked with ldd).
Has anyone else in the list had these problems with graphical link2s (this
is the delilinux version) or with Xvesa in BL2? I will try Xvesa on this
computer with BL3, where I know it is put together correctly. And/or
reboot in case that fixes the problem like it did with the /proc file on
another computer.
This is a DFI computer that for a while would tell me 'not a kernel image'
when I used loadlin but it has booted perfectly about 10 times in a row
today. Maybe it has a hardware problem related to graphics in linux?
Another list member also ran into the 'not a kernel image' problem with
loadlin on a different model computer, where lilo works, and loadlin will
work if booted from Win9x DOS but not DR PC or MS DOS.
keesan at sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
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