From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 3 11:45:27 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id LAA27668 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 3 Mar 1995 11:45:27 -0800 Received: from netcom14.netcom.com (hasty@netcom14.netcom.com [192.100.81.126]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA27662 for ; Fri, 3 Mar 1995 11:45:25 -0800 From: hasty@netcom.com Received: from localhost by netcom14.netcom.com (8.6.10/Netcom) id LAA13819; Fri, 3 Mar 1995 11:44:52 -0800 Message-Id: <199503031944.LAA13819@netcom14.netcom.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Lites and Doom Date: Fri, 03 Mar 95 11:44:52 -0800 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, My first cracked at running Doom was not too successful. jhk, uploaded the linux shared libraries needed to run doom to: ftp://freefall.cdrom.com/pub/incoming/linux-stuff.tgz Without them you don't even have a chance at running doom because linux uses static shared libs :) Now the good news is that I can run doom almost to the point that is ready to display. I downloaded cal, a simple linux program, which uses shared libs, and it runs. So we can at least run linux programs. This is the list of problems: (1) Svga version of Doom, it fails to display because the linux iopl called failed to give permission to Doom to access the vga card. (2) X version of Doom seems to run till is ready to display however I don't have an X server to run under Mach yet. I can compiled one however I am running out time. (3) Most likeley I will not be able to run the linux X server mostly because the iopl does not work and there may be other problems however I have not gotten that far. I need at least another linux static library so I have to go out and get it --- is libm. The FreeBSD X server can't run because it can't find a suitable console driver. I will look into this further next week. (4) There is no ethernet driver for my SMC card. So I can't aim the display to another FreeBSD. We may have to develop a strategy to port some of our drivers to lites . Well I am going to Hawaii tomorrow and will be back Thursday. Cheers, Amancio