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Re: [Qemu-devel] re: svga_helper
From: |
Jim C. Brown |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] re: svga_helper |
Date: |
Sun, 10 Jul 2005 14:03:07 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.4i |
On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 04:43:54PM +0000, Bob Barry wrote:
> That sounds spot on. But it doesn't work. The cause of the problem was
> updating
> all packages (Gentoo "emerge world") which wiped my qemu-friendly sdl. I've
> tried installing sdl-1.2.7 and sdl-1.2.8, with both the Gentoo installer and
> by
> "./configure, make, make install", with x specifically enabled. When I try
> to run qemu
> after compiling sdl with svgalib disabled, it complains "can't start sdl,
> exiting". When I
> try to run qemu after compiling sdl with svgalib enabled, it complains "can't
> find svgalib-helper".
> It never recognizes the availability of X. But after every compile of sdl,
> both with and
> without svgalib enabled, I checked that applications in the SDL-1.2.8/test
> directory would
> run - and they always use X and run beautifully. It seems like something in
> the qemu
> "SDL-starter" is demanding svgalib.
>
> Suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bob Barry
>
Sounds similar to an issue I've heard where those trying to get SDL to work
with the framebuffer cant because SDL demands X11.
I recommend compiling SDL w/o svgalib support, and then modifying sdl.c
to report the error. Specificly, change sdl_display_init so this line
fprintf(stderr, "Could not initialize SDL - exiting\n");
becomes this line
fprintf(stderr, "Could not initialize SDL - %s\n", SDL_GetError());
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