Holly Bostick wrote: >Michael Sullivan schreef: > > >>I found a tutorial for svgalib this morning. I've always been >>fascinated by graphics programming, but never found a tutorial that was >>simple enough for me to follow in the beginning. I liked this tutorial. >>It provided source code for a simple c program that just plots a pixel >>to the screen. I copied the code into a file and compiled it. It all >>compiled fine. When I tried to run the program, I got this: >> >>svgalib: Cannot open /dev/svga >>Is svgalib_helper module loaded? >> >> >>Is this something I can fix, or yet another situation in my quest for >>graphics programming knowledge where I'm just out of luck? >> >> >> > >Ummm... the error message asked a pretty simple-seeming question: > >"Is svgalib_helper module loaded?" > >So as far as that goes, it does seem to be something you can check, and >--if the answer turns out to be "no"-- to fix, by loading the module >(it's a kernel module created during the install of svgalib, and if you >haven't rebooted since you installed svgalib, it won't be loaded). > >If the module fails to load, what is the error after modprobe >svgalib_helper? > >HTH, >Holly > > Hi, Also check if the /usr/src/linux link point to your running kernel, if not correct it. This (linux link) is a specific thing with all kernel modules, not just svgalib. HTH. Rumen
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