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[LNX]Travis' Linux Lament continues ...

• Posted by Travis Beaty <travisbeaty at arn.net> Apr 30, 2001
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Howdy y'all!

New Linux problem for everyone:

I've been playing with the eu_engin.e include file, to produce graphics in
Linux.  I attempted to
run the following short code:

-- Test program to switch graphics mode and draw a yellow circle in Linux.
-- File located at:  /home/Travis/Desktop
-- Run from Linux command prompt as root after cd'ing to file location.

include eu_engin.e

if graphics_mode(19) = 1 then
    puts(1, "Unable to switch graphics mode!\n")
end if
ellipse(YELLOW, 0, {10, 10}, {20, 20})
sleep(5)
if graphics_mode(-1) then end if

-- end code

When I attempt to run this, no circle appears on the screen and no ex.err file
was produced.
However, upon termination, I found these lines:

Int 0x10 is not in rom (0114:0113)
No VESA bios detected!
Try running vga_reset.
Using VGA driver.

Now then, I know that under DOS, this will run correctly, because I changed
"include eu_engine.e"
to "include graphics.e" and ran it without problems.

In Linux, I could find no documentation, neither in the eu_engin docs or as a
man page, on
vga_reset.  I picked mode 19 so that I could use a VGA driver.  

Any ideas?  Might just be one of those occasions where I have to be smarter than
what I'm working
with.  

-- Travis --