Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Feb 2000 00:27:24 +0200 (IST) | From | Matan Ziv-Av <> | Subject | Re: SCSI errors while playing music and doing a tape backup |
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> >> I suspect libsvga is doing some bad magic (though why on earth it > >> would mess with my SCSI subsystem is quite beyond me). I think I need > >> to configure libsvga, but I'm not sure how (/etc/vgalib?) or else I > >> need to recompile libsvga with some debug info enabled... > > > > It is libsvga. Use X instead
Don't.
> Personally I prefer libsvga, I don't find Doom very playable under > X (the traditional doom keys - Ctrl, Alt, Shift, cursor <>^v get in > the way of my window manager. Plus the mouse gets in the way) > > But more fundamentally, surely if libsvga is broken, it should be > fixed? I shall try to fix this over the next few days...
The problem is that I assumed reading pci config space is safe. It is not in the mentioned scsi card case (and probably with others). The problem is fixed in svgalib-1.4.1 (and later).
-- Matan Ziv-Av. matan@svgalib.org
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