RE: SVGAlib VESA and Matrox Millenium II (Success at last)

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From: Dr. Michael Weller (eowmob@exp-math.uni-essen.de)
Date: Tue 28 Jul 1998 - 11:39:32 IDT


On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Alain Borel wrote:

> On 27-Jul-98 Iftikhar Rathore wrote:
> > I compiled svgalib-1.3.0 with Dr. Weller's patch posted couple of days
> > ago, and bingo, it works great, I am getting all VESA the modes and they
> > look beautiful on my Matrox Millenium II.
> > 
> > vgatest shows all the VESA modes correctly and I tested switching to all
> > those modes, they all  worked without a problem.
> > 
> > The code compiled without any problem on RedHat-5.0 (with glibc-2).
> > FT
> Same for me here!
> (except it was libc 5.4.something)
> 
> Alain Borel
> Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry
> University of Lausanne (Switzerland)

Yet again, would it be possible for someone with egcs, and/or the new
syscall_return define in a kernel header to try adding some info for
autodetecting this in the source (like a #define to check for).

Right now, I understand some manual fine tuning is required at least for
an egcs compile.

Michael.

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