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Bug#607546: marked as done (svgalib support)

Your message dated Sun, 19 Dec 2010 21:14:30 +0000
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and subject line Re: Bug#607546: svgalib support
has caused the Debian Bug report #607546,
regarding svgalib support
to be marked as done.

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Package: linux-2.6.32
Severity: wishlist

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When i915 is installed with modeset=1 it is not possible to run svgalib.
(System crashes but can be restored by starting X11)
 
I strongly prefer to run in terminal mode with svgalib and therefore
I use modeset=0 but then I have no X11. It would be nice to be able
to use svgalib while modeset=1 and as I understand there are some
kernel options for the framebuffer to allow that.

It would be nice if the distributed kernel would have whatever is
required enabled to allow svgalib in future debuian kernel releases.

Leif


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

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On Sun, 2010-12-19 at 18:23 +0100, Leif Asbrink wrote:
> Package: linux-2.6.32
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> *** Please type your report below this line ***
> 
> When i915 is installed with modeset=1 it is not possible to run svgalib.
> (System crashes but can be restored by starting X11)
>  
> I strongly prefer to run in terminal mode with svgalib and therefore
> I use modeset=0 but then I have no X11. It would be nice to be able
> to use svgalib while modeset=1 and as I understand there are some
> kernel options for the framebuffer to allow that.

No, that's impossible.  Either a kernel driver or userland can manage
memory on the video card, but not both.

> It would be nice if the distributed kernel would have whatever is
> required enabled to allow svgalib in future debuian kernel releases.

We will not make kernel changes to support svgalib.  If you really need
to run old applications written for svgalib then you could look into
porting svgalib to run on top of a kernel framebuffer device.  (svgalib
is no longer developed, so you would probably have to do this yourself.)

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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