Setting up libcaca and sdl to use it

Can anyone point me to an idiot's step-by-step guide to setting up libcaca and making sdl use it?   I've downloaded the .deb files and I can probably find the libraries etc it depends on, and use dpkg - i etc to install them.   But the libcaca home pages talk about amending sdl source (the id

Color in text console

I've got aalib installed and games like prboom or quakeforge (nq-sdl) use it by default, which is what I want, and I can alter the text size to get a reasonable resolution.   Does anybody know how to get color?    The text console will do color (eg. ls -l --color=auto produces a color listin

Re: Re: Compiling kernel - problems

Thanks for these replies.  I realised afterwards that hdc was not my cdrom, but the hard disk that contained the linux partitions.  Checking it showed it did have errors.  I've had trouble with this disk before - may or may not be related, but it crashes any software that attempts to create

Compiling kernel - problems

I'm running Debian woody on a Pentium machine, installed from DVD and using kernel vmlinuz-2.4.18-bf2.4.   I'm trying to play around with different kernel settings, so I thought I start by recompiling this one.  I installed kernel-package and kernel-source-2.4.18.   I go to directory /usr/src

Re: Re: Setting text mode in the console

That's brilliant - thankyou - tried it and it works!   - C

Setting text mode in the console

Anybody know whether and how I can set text modes in the console?  I'm running woody, on a Pentium 200 with ATI Mach 64 chipset.  I've installed svgalib, svgatextmode and fbset but I can't see how to change my text mode from 80x25.   I've put vga=ask in the boot script (or whatever you call