From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 28 23:28:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AC7E37B404 for ; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 23:28:44 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eAT7SfC29330; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 01:28:41 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 01:28:40 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Mike Batchelor Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux Emulation Message-ID: <20001129012840.A15964@dan.emsphone.com> References: <000901c05a9e$12caff40$8ded4518@kldt1.bc.wave.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.12i In-Reply-To: <000901c05a9e$12caff40$8ded4518@kldt1.bc.wave.home.com>; from "Mike Batchelor" on Wed Nov 29 23:20:52 GMT 2000 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message