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    SubjectRe: SCSI errors while playing music and doing a tape backup

    > >> 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).


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    Matan Ziv-Av. matan@svgalib.org


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