Re: svgalib error

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From: Matan Ziv-Av (matan@svgalib.org)
Date: Wed 05 Sep 2001 - 14:07:57 IDT


On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Dixy Dikson wrote:

> I'm new to Linux and svgalib.Trying to run a program linked with svgalib, I've
> got the following error message:
> svgalib: cannot open /dev/svga
> Does somebody know what this means?

if the device node (/dev/svga) exists, and has major 209 (check with ls
-l), then you need to insert the module that was built when you ran make
install. Do this by issuing the command insmod svgalib_helper.


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Matan Ziv-Av.                         matan@svgalib.org



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