Re: SVGA & Linux

Hello,
     I has a what sounds to be the same problem.  You might find the posts
eariler if you search this list.  it was awhile ago.  Anyways the problem I had
was an interrupt issue with the svgahelper.o module.  To test this I sshed into
the box at from a different computer and started advmenu on the console.  I
noticed that my ethernet card and the svgahelper were using the same irq. 
Hitting enter on the ssh session used the network card triggering the
interrrupt on it and caused advmenu to display.  After launching a game and
returning back to advmenu it would happen again.  The fix for me was edit the
vgamisc.c file in svgalib and change line 43 from

#if 1

to 

#if 0

and recompiled svgalib.

I got this info from Matan from svgalib.org.

Hope this helps you out

-Lee


Quoting Ryan Hagelstrom <[email protected]>:

> Previously I had advance mame/menu set up on my linux system running an
> older version of the kernel and svgalib. I recently upgraded my system
> and am now running kernel 2.6.15-r1 and svgalib 1.9.21-r1. If i run the
> old kernel and the old svalib advance mame runs fine. If i run the new
> kernel and new svgalib advance mame does not, The result is a blank
> screen. I know svgalib is running as I can run the demo programs such as
> vgatest and everything works out perfectly.
> 
> At this point I'm assuming a config issue with advance mame or an
> incompatibility with svgalib 1.9.21-r1. I saw in the advance mame
> history support was for 1.9.20. Are there any known incompatibility with
> 1.9.21 or should things work out fine? I get the same blank screen
> results with advv and advcfg but I don't really trust those as a gage as
> I could never get those programs to work even when I had advnace mame
> running prior. Monitor clock and range are set to the monitors spec.
> Anything else I should look at that I may have overlooked?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Ryan Hagelstrom




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