Re: Problems with /dev/svga

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From: Matan Ziv-Av (matan@svgalib.org)
Date: Tue 18 Jun 2002 - 21:57:51 IDT


On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Roberto Waltman wrote:

> I am having problems trying to run svgalib 1.9.15
> (I need this version for the Intel 810/815 support)
> 
> The system is a vanilla RedHat 7.2 installation,
>  with kernel version 2.4.7-10
> 
> At boot time the system prints "Unresolved symbols in
> svgalib_helper.o"After that, of course, programs linked
> with svgalib can not open /dev/svga
> How can I find what symbols can not be found?

Try to insmod it manually, with
insmod svgalib_helper
This should list the missing symbols.

> Are the mtrr patches required for later versions of the
> Linux kernel ?

They are not necessary, and on i810 they have no affect anyway.



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Matan Ziv-Av.                         matan@svgalib.org



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