From: Steve Madden (madden@SWVX12.SWMED.EDU)
Date: Mon 03 Jul 2000 - 16:05:52 IDT
I am unable to install 1.4.0 or 1.4.1 successfully. Got Jay Link's book and tried 1.4.0 from the included disk and then tried 1.4.1 from the SVGAlib site. Neither one worked. Mr. Link's instructions in the book were less than crystal clear but following as best I could I got the source files copied to /usr/src and unpacked. On running make install, I get a couple of cryptic error messages at the very end of the process, and I suspect it's not installing completely. Unfortunately, I don't have the text of the errors available here. I'm running a 550 MHz pentium III with an ATI RagePro video card. I changed back to that video card when I figured out that my newer ATI Xpert 99 card wasn't supported. I have tried this with two different Linuxes, Red Hat 6.0 and Mandrake 7.0. Have also tried it two ways: both uncommenting and not uncommenting the crucial "libC" line in Makefile.cfg. Mr. Link contradicts himself between p.5 and p.7 on whether you need to do this with the above mentioned Linuxes. Apparently it doesn't matter: it doesn't work either way. Anyway, I am unable to get even the first demo program to compile: using the -lvga suffix Mr. Link specifies with the gcc instruction, both Linuxes say they can't find the lvga directory. There are other problems, but I'll spare you the gruesome details. And there the matter rests. Having installed two different Linuxes at least twice each over the weekend, and changed my video card several times, and with no useful results from any of this, I'm taking a break from Linux at least until after the fourth of July. At about 1100 PM last night I was ready to throw it all in the trash, but I'm mellowed out these days. More likely I'll just put it on a shelf in the closet and never look at it again. However, if there is some simple solution to this problem, I'd love to hear it. Please let me know if I got a bad disk and/or bad instructions in a brand-new book by a Mensa member. If anybody is interested, I will be glad to provide more detailed information. William H. Wingo Dallas, Texas wingowh@cs.com
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.4 : Wed 21 Jan 2004 - 22:10:23 IST