🚀 go-pugleaf

RetroBBS NetNews Server

Inspired by RockSolid Light RIP Retro Guy

Article View: aus.computers.linux
Article #59288

Help getting RedHat SVGA games to work

#59288
From: John Saunders
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 00:00
27 lines
2199 bytes
I have installed RedHat 2.1 a couple of weeks ago. I've just gotten to the
stage where everything is working normally as I like it so I decide to
try out some games. I played a bit of abuse.x11 but found the 320x200 X11
window much too small. So I switch to a console and tried running it there,
what I got for my trouble was a blank screen. I CTL-C'ed it and the error
messages showed /etc/vga/libvga.config not found. I remember seeing this file
in /etc, so I made a /etc/vga and moved the files there. I tried abuse.svga
again, same familiar blank screen. Error message about MOUSE_TYPE environemnt
variable not set if not using a MicroSoft mouse. So I switch my mouse into
MicroSoft mode, checked that abuse.svga is suid root, then tried again. Got
my good old friend the blank screen, and my new friend the MOUSE_TYPE error
message. OK, I think, lets try something less stressful than abuse. So I fire
up svga_klondike, hey hey I got graphics, Do'h! the mouse doesn't move. So I
repeated all svga_ games and found that I get graphics but no mouse. Abuse
still gives me a blank screen.

Has anybody got this going? BTW, my RedHat install was a commplete, everything
with cherries on top install (and my harddisk felt it). I'm running Linux
1.3.57 and it's an all ELF system but include the a.out libs.

Cheers.
--            +------------------------------------------------------------+
        .     | John Saunders  - johns@rd.scitec.com.au (Work)             |
    ,--_|\    |                - john@pacer.apana.org.au (Home)            |
   /  Oz  \   |                - http://triode.apana.org.au:8080/~johns/   |
   \_,--\_/   | SCITEC LIMITED - Phone +61 2 428 9563 - Fax +61 2 428 9933 |
         v    +------------------------------------------------------------+
Technical Details
Message-ID: <4g0tv4$sd0@mailhub.scitec.com.au>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!unknown!not-for-mail

Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 102983,5db87e8aa1a30603,start
X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public
From: johns@rd.scitec.com.au (John Saunders)
Subject: Help getting RedHat SVGA games to work
Date: 1996/02/16
Message-ID: <4g0tv4$sd0@mailhub.scitec.com.au>
X-Deja-AN: 139576159
organization: SCITEC LIMITED, Sydney, Australia.
newsgroups: aus.computers.linux