Bochs without X11

m · Post by m » Wed Feb 21, 2007 7:17 pm

Hi.

I'm wondering if all of you're using Bochs under X11...Does anyone know a way to use Bochs without X11?

I set the item display_library in bochsrc to svga but Bochs triples a panic indicating that there is no such library existing.Currently I have the package svgalib installed on my system,FreeBSD.And I find nothing helpful in their official documentation.

Do you have any ideas?Any help is appreciated.Thanks in advance!

Brynet-Inc · Post by **Brynet-Inc** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 8:56 pm

Not a clue about bochs..

I do know that QEMU includes a VNC server these days..

There is also a patch that uses curses/ncurses as an interface

You should read the bochs documentation though.. You likely need to "configure" the other optional display interfaces.

Combuster · Post by **Combuster** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 1:35 am

poor documentation?

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./configure --help

which will tell you to

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./configure --with-svga --without-x11 --whatever-other-settings-you-want

m · Post by m » Thu Feb 22, 2007 8:40 am

Yeah,thanks.

I think I forgot to compile the associated modules in advance...

Now a new problem has occured...When I run Bochs with svgalib it almost crashed my machine and the DELL logo was displayed on the screen scattered.It seems that the BIOS ROM was read into the VRAM...A strange problem.

Do you have ideas on this?Anyway if I can find a way out I will post back again.

Regards

Solar · Post by **Solar** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 8:58 am

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*ducksandruns*

Combuster · Post by **Combuster** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 9:10 am

No personal experience with svgalib - you could try to build SDL as a layer between those and use that. Maybe bochs has a broken or buggy frontend to it? even the windows gui looks still the same even after 2 years...

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iammisc · Post by **iammisc** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 7:07 pm

Gentoo rocks, but unfortunately it tends to lag a few versions behind. Yesterday it even proposed an 1.4 java runtime to me

Lags a few versions behind? For your information, gentoo has some of the most up-to-date packages. It was one of the first to have x.org 7.0 support and it supports the most up-to-date openoffice.org and firefox and most other packages.

The java 1.4 version is probably an open source jvm like blackdown or something and not the sun jvm or it could be for the old java system or for compatibility with openoffice.org or 32 bits if you have amd64.

Solar · Post by **Solar** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 2:49 am

{Deleted because it's OT. Combuster, just try "emerge sun-jdk", and look up "~x86" / "java-config".}

m · Post by m » Fri Feb 23, 2007 4:18 am

It seems that that crash isn't caused by Bochs...Some programs I wrote using svgalib these days and the demos along with svgalib also crash like that.And sometimes FreeBSD core dump says "Segmentation Fault".So maybe it's svgalib's fault?
(Some "primitive" interfaces within svgalib may have something to do with this...)