Mirror of svgalib patched to compile on modern Linux distros
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svgalib

Latest release (1.9.25), patched so it'll compile on modern GNU/linux distros.

Original Source: https://www.svgalib.org/ More exactly here: http://my.svgalib.org/svgalib/ tar ball: http://my.svgalib.org/svgalib/svgalib-1.9.25.tar.gz

Compilation instructions

  1. Clone repo or download release
  2. AS ROOT run: # NO_HELPER=y make install
Original description, probably not very relevant

This is an alpha release. Don't use it if you are not interested in svgalib development.

Program using svgalib 1.9.0 or later don't need root provoleges (suid root). They do need access to /dev/svga, which is a char device with major 209 and minor 0. The module svgalib_helper need also be inserted.

To make the devices, and the module (kernel 2.4 or newer), change to directory kernel/svgalib_helper, and type make install.

There is a compile time option to return to old behaviour, of using root privileges to access /dev/mem, instead of svgalib helper. To compile for this select the NO_HELPER option in Makefile.cfg.