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From: teunis <teunis@computersupportcentre.com>
To : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 14:11:51 -0700 (MST)
Re: Kgicon & the sysctl stuff
On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Marcus Sundberg wrote:
> > The new sysctl stuff in fbcon-kgi.c broke it. There is this undefined
> > reference to "memset", and the thing won't insmod anymore.
> >
> > ... 2 hours and much hair pulling later ...
> >
> > Line 1587 where there is a "constructor expression", as follows :
> >
> > sysctl_subsys[idx] = (struct ctl_table)
> > {idx+1, name, NULL, 0, 0555, c_leafs};
> >
> > Not only is that not ANSI, it causes the above problem. ARGH !!!
> > Somebody please fix that. I had hoped to get text modes working
> > tonight, grumble grumble...
>
> ???
> You mean your compiler inserts a memset() at that point?
> I'd call that a severe bug... It surely works fine for me with
> pgcc 1.0.3. Well, I'll just convert it to use memcpy instead of
> doing a direct assign then...
The only prob I had was a missing "kgim_monitor_get_sysctl" line in
.symbols in (degas/kgicon/kgi/monitor/.symbols)
Added that and everything worked here :)
G'day, eh? :)
- Teunis
PS: if ya count a blank screen as working that is *sigh*.
Anyone know why I keep getting blank screens? What FB-options are
supposed to be set? I saw something about not enabling Amiga or Macintosh
FB stuff but am not sure?
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