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Date:      Wed, 29 Nov 2000 01:28:40 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        Mike Batchelor <smujohnson@home.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Linux Emulation
Message-ID:  <20001129012840.A15964@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <000901c05a9e$12caff40$8ded4518@kldt1.bc.wave.home.com>; from "Mike Batchelor" on Wed Nov 29 23:20:52 GMT 2000
References:  <000901c05a9e$12caff40$8ded4518@kldt1.bc.wave.home.com>

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In the last episode (Nov 29), Mike Batchelor said:
> Well,  I actually have a problem.  First of all, I'm wondering if
> linux_base for FreeBSD emulates glibc as well as libc5.  That I am
> not sure.

All the "linux_base" does is install most of a RedHat 6.1 system into
/usr/compat/linux.  If "libc.so.6" is glibc, then it's included.
 
> Anyways, I tried downloading snes9x 1.33a for Linux glibc and I can't
> get it working.  For those who don't know, it's an SNES emulator
> which can run under x11.  The X window loads up and everything, the
> text which is displayed to the console appears, but nothing happens
> after that (blank black window).

Try /usr/ports/emulators/snes9x.

> And, for regular linux programs that use libvga.so, the only way I
> can fool them to thinking it's a linux native is by creating symbolic
> links to /usr/lib/libvga.so.1 from /compat/linux/......./libvga.so. 
> Is there another way to do this?  brandelfing to linux doesn't seem
> to help.

I wouldn't expect svgalib programs to work; our console is too
different from Linuxes.
 
> PS - If you have the time, please download a tarball of it from
> www.snes9x.com if you feel your linux emulation is fully functional. 
> Thanks again

The Linux emulation is good enough to run Linux Netscape, Staroffice
and Oracle8; it's only lacking in places where Linux lets apps hit the
hardware directly (svgalib, scsi passthrough devices, etc).

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com


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