From: Marcus Sundberg <mackan@stacken.kth.se>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1998 18:51:04 +0200

Re: Failed to open visual ??

Jason Twamley wrote:
> 
> Hi..
> Can anyone help? I have ggi-devel-980903.tar.gz snapshot made on my intel linux
> machine with a Matrox Millenium II and have set the monitor to either VGA or
> SVGA. Kgicon makes ok as does libggi with all the targets enabled bar KDI.
> insert works when I do not have XF86_SVGA running. When it is running
> I get a console with black on black..so I cannot see any text.
> When XF86_SCGA is not running insert works and the fonts change
> however when I try to run a demo I get the message
> Failed to open visual

Do
export GGI_DEBUG=255
and try to run any of the demos.
If you don't see an obvious problem in the debugging output, please
post it to the list and we'll see if we can spot it.

//Marcus
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