From: Steven Seeger (sseeger@stellartec.com)
Date: Wed 21 Feb 2001 - 01:11:46 IST
Thanks for your help with the cli and sti issue, fellas. I solved it before I got the replies by upgrading to 1.4.2 anyway. :) For some reason 1.4.1 had that problem with the RTLinux changes to system.h, but 1.4.2 did not. Anyhow, new quetion. SVGAlib runs great on our slackware system over here. We're having a problem on a system running Redhat 6.2 however. We keep getting system hangs. The system is running on a PC104 small footprint module, a 66 mhz 486. It's being used in an embedded system for a medical device purpose. My project, running Slackware (my personal favorite) uses nothing but a touch screen for user input and is very fun. Anyway, when these other folks, who have masters degrees and make twice as much as me, read in a magazine that Red Hat is oh so cool, they switched to that and have nothing but crashing problems now. We've managed to trace the crashing problem to sprintf. One of our guys here found out there's a bug in sprintf, and went to snprintf. Same problem. I then wrote ssprintf which takes a float and converts it to a string with no decimal. That crashed it as well. Very strange. I wrote a program that does this repeatedly after calling vga_init and vga_setmode. The program will crash after a few minutes, and the entire system will hang. If we do not call vga_init and vga_setmode, the system will not crash. Does anybody have any idea as to what this might be? If anyone is more experienced with Red Hat than I am, my company will even consider someone a consulting fee to help out, if it requires more personal assistance. Thanks for your time, and for making this mailing list such a valuable resource to people new to svgalib. My entire unix life has been with shells and writing text based programs, and it's great to finally get into some real systems. This is a great platform and svgalib is just awesome. BTW, how many people do you get on this list saying "how do I get quake to run?" :) Steve ------------------------------------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: To: listbot@svgalib.org Body: unsubscribe linux-svgalib
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