I recently posted regarding ZGV not running with 2.6.9 kernels. Turned out
to be a single line in the svgalib source that needed changing.

Credit for this fix goes to Matan Ziv-Av.

A short patch is included below.

diff -Nur svgalib-1.4.3.orig/src/vga.c svgalib-1.4.3/src/vga.c
--- svgalib-1.4.3.orig/src/vga.c 2001-05-29 14:37:55.000000000 +0000
+++ svgalib-1.4.3/src/vga.c 2004-12-07 00:18:29.000000000 +0000
@@ -1953,7 +1953,7 @@
};
__vga_mmap();

- if ((long) GM < 0) {
+ if ((long) GM == -1) {
printf("svgalib: mmap error rrr\n");
exit(1);
}


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