From: Todor Prokopov (koprok@newmail.net)
Date: Sun 22 Apr 2001 - 17:17:31 IDT
Hello! On 22 Apr 2001, Andy Mortimer wrote: > It may depend which version you are using, but I believe that 1.4.2 by > default uses the SIGPROF signal - which the profiler also uses - to > signal switching between virtual terminals. When a Debian user hit > this problem, Matan's comment was: > > + pthreads use USR1 and USR2, so in order to get svgalib to work with > + pthreads I had to change this. That was in libc5 time. I think that > + glibc2 with linuxthreads does not use the signals, so it might be safe > + to return to the old ones. > > The signals to use are set near the end of libvga.h, so if you > compiled svgalib yourself, you can probably change it there and > recompile (maybe with a make clean beforehand just in case). 10x a lot for the advice, I've changed the signals as you told me and all seems to work just fine :) It's probably a good idea to be able to change these signals from Makefile.cfg, because that's the right place to do this, isn't it? Again, 10x for the help! :) \<0pR0/< ------------------------------------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: To: listbot@svgalib.org Body: unsubscribe linux-svgalib
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