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

Matan Ziv-Av (matan@svgalib.org)
Thu, 10 Feb 2000 00:27:24 +0200 (IST)

> >> 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).

-- 
Matan Ziv-Av.                         matan@svgalib.org




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