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ygq · Post by **ygq** » Mon Sep 19, 2011 8:55 pm

Hi all. I'd like to run ZSNES on the Linux console because my graphics card is dead so I can't start X, but I'm not really sure what to do.

I tried recompiling (the gods weren't listening) and tried starting with all the -v # options and -m, but I still get an error "Could not set XxY video mode: couldn't set console screen info"...

paulguy · Post by **paulguy** » Mon Sep 19, 2011 9:58 pm

From your post, it sounds like you're trying to run zsnes from some kind of dumb terminal. In which case, you'll want to do something like SDL_VIDEODRIVER="aalib" zsnes.

ygq · Post by **ygq** » Tue Sep 20, 2011 9:06 am

paulguy wrote:From your post, it sounds like you're trying to run zsnes from some kind of dumb terminal. In which case, you'll want to do something like SDL_VIDEODRIVER="aalib" zsnes.

Thank you, this sounds promising, though ZSNES still doesn't start. At least I get a new error: "No available video device". I tried with "fbdev" and "svgalib" also.

I'm trying to run it in the linux terminal btw. I got video playing with mplayer so I should be able to run ZSNES too.

paulguy · Post by **paulguy** » Tue Sep 20, 2011 9:18 am

Do you have a terminal framebuffer driver loaded? What's the output of lsmod?

ygq · Post by **ygq** » Thu Sep 22, 2011 7:53 pm

paulguy wrote:Do you have a terminal framebuffer driver loaded? What's the output of lsmod?

Yes, I have a framebuffer driver, I can play back video (not ascii). I don"t know how to set ZSNES to use it though.

Edit: sorry, no lsmod dump, but it's unbelievably clunky to do from links2

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