From: Sengan Baring-Gould <sengan@seqnet.net>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 19:47:44 -0600

Re: more MediaGX driver and XGGI help needed

Nikita Proskourine wrote:

> After unsuccessfully trying a number of configurations, I tried switching
> back and forth between virtual terminals and the screen data appeared!
> However, the text seemed to go over the boundaries of the screen (by about
> 1 character in each direction).

Yes... That's before you run con2fbmap.

> I am using Cyrix 5510 method specified in
> README.gx. I tried running X (can't get it to do any better than 320x200x8
> with SVGA driver) and when I exited, the screen was in usual text mode.

Don't know. Try XF68_FBDEV.

> I've compiled con2fbmap, but my computer freezes when I run con2fbmap 0 1.

No idea. Have fixed similar problems -- are you sure you have a 5510?Try
changing the debuglevel to 9 in gx.c, clock/prog/ics5342.c, whatever monitor
driver you're using, ... and kgi-fbcon.c and send me the results.

> What do I need to do to get this to work right? Also, do I need to compile
> any libraries to run XGGI?

  Yes: libggi. Wouldn't compile last time I tried.

Sengan