Re: 2.3.29 mmap error in paged screen memory

Matan Ziv-Av (matan@svgalib.org)
Fri, 26 Nov 1999 20:45:54 +0200 (IST)


> hi!
>
> When I try to use 'zgv' to display a picture, I get the following mesage :
>
> [root@debian-f5ibh] ~ # zgv
> svgalib: mmap error in paged screen memory.

The problem is with svgalib in background support mode.
If you want to use svgalib programs with a 2.3 kernel, you must compile
svgalib without background support (this means that svgalib programs
will sleep when a console switch occurs).

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Matan Ziv-Av.                         matan@svgalib.org

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