Steve, Ahhh... I see why you thought I was being crazy... Running A SVGALib program into an X Window would be pretty amazing!
Yeah, I guess that because I`m no longer running it as root, it doesn`t have permissions to create or use the virtual console (which I used to access via Alt + F8). Thanks, James On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 07:28:29 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steven Seeger) wrote: > Oh I get ya James! I misunderstood you. I thought you meant the SVGA program > would run in a window. Like you'd open a terminal window and then run your > program and the graphics would show up in a window. Like with playing old > DOS games in a Windows dos box. > > Yes I believe you when you say that 1.4.3 would work the way you say it > does. Sorry for the misunderstanding. > > I am not sure why it wouldn't work. The only thing I can guess is maybe it > has something to do with permissions since svgalib doesn't run as superuser > anymore with the later version that uses /dev/svga. > > Steve > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of James Wright > >Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 7:04 AM > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: Running SVGALib programs from X Windows > > > > > > > > I assure you that it under 1.4.3 it works! I can be using > >X, then run a SVGALib > >program, and it will switch to a VC and run. Whilst the > >SVGALib proggy is running I can > >switch to the other consoles using Alt + F1-F6, and switch > >back to X Windows with Alt + F7, > >and then switch back to the SVGALib screen with Alt + F8. > > > >Linux version: 2.4.18 > >X Serve: Xfree86 4.1.0 > >NVIDIA kernel driver: 1.0-213. > > > > > >James > ------------------------------------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Body: unsubscribe linux-svgalib
