On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 04:43:54PM +0000, Bob Barry wrote: > That sounds spot on. But it doesn't work. The cause of the problem was > updating > all packages (Gentoo "emerge world") which wiped my qemu-friendly sdl. I've > tried installing sdl-1.2.7 and sdl-1.2.8, with both the Gentoo installer and > by > "./configure, make, make install", with x specifically enabled. When I try > to run qemu > after compiling sdl with svgalib disabled, it complains "can't start sdl, > exiting". When I > try to run qemu after compiling sdl with svgalib enabled, it complains "can't > find svgalib-helper". > It never recognizes the availability of X. But after every compile of sdl, > both with and > without svgalib enabled, I checked that applications in the SDL-1.2.8/test > directory would > run - and they always use X and run beautifully. It seems like something in > the qemu > "SDL-starter" is demanding svgalib. > > Suggestions would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Bob Barry >
Sounds similar to an issue I've heard where those trying to get SDL to work with the framebuffer cant because SDL demands X11. I recommend compiling SDL w/o svgalib support, and then modifying sdl.c to report the error. Specificly, change sdl_display_init so this line fprintf(stderr, "Could not initialize SDL - exiting\n"); becomes this line fprintf(stderr, "Could not initialize SDL - %s\n", SDL_GetError()); -- Infinite complexity begets infinite beauty. Infinite precision begets infinite perfection. _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
