From: Matan Ziv-Av (matan@svgalib.org)
Date: Fri 21 Apr 2000 - 23:42:31 IDT
> Upon installing version 1.9.4, i tried to run the > newly compiled demos.But i recieved an error message > saying unable to open /dev/svga.Is this something I > need to set or should have been set when I did a make > install.If I need to set this myself, where should > /dev/svga be pointed to? I need to write a howto. Look in directory kernel/svgalib_helper There is a helper module, which make compile should compile. make device should make the devices /dev/svga and /dev/svga[1-4]. Currently svgalib only uses /dev/svga to access all cards, instead of each specific device. In order to use svgalib you must insert the module ( if you use kmod, the line alias char-major-209 svgalib_helper in modules.conf should do the work), and the program need not be run as root. Note that it does need rw access to the device so set the permissions accordingly. -- Matan Ziv-Av. matan@svgalib.org
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