[MPlayer-dev-eng] Change to new vm86? (VESA not working on newer glibc:s)

[Arpi]

Hi,

> > The comments are wrong too, syscall#113 is the _vm86old()_, which is
> > implemented there in inline assembly, and SHOULD always work!
> 
> But it does not, see an strace at:
> http://mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/2003-February/029416.html
> (vm86old function not implemented)
> 
> > I prefer to remove the whole code, and only use the new vm86() call,
> > throught libc!
> 
> I can't get that working in any way. Trying an assembler syscall 166
> the mplayer crashes, and trying with libc vm86() it always returns -1
> (failure) with an errno of 14 (EFAULT / Bad address?) and mplayer exists
> with VESA failer = 0x4fff. I tried various things, eg.
> vm86(VM86_ENTER,&context.vm).
> 
> Does anyone with newer glibc:s get this working? And if, please tell
> how so it can be fixed..

i guess you shouild look at svga lib sources. the vo_vesa code is (afaik)
based on that, at least it uses libLRMI which comes from svgalib.
(assuming that current svgalib uses vm86())


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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