[Slackbuilds-users] Updates - 20070822

[Alan Hicks]

Martin Lefebvre wrote:
>> root at robin:/home/alan/qemu# qemu-img create -f qcow slack.img 10G
>> Formating 'slack.img', fmt=qcow, size=10485760 kB
>> root at robin:/home/alan/qemu#
>> root at robin:/home/alan/qemu# qemu -cdrom /dev/cdrom -hda slack.img \
>>   -m 256 -boot d
>> Could not open '/dev/kqemu' - QEMU acceleration layer not activated
>>
>> At this point, the entire screen is taken up by qemu (though only about
>> a third of it is in use at the time) and the keys have been re-mapped.
>> I was of course, attempting to boot the Slackware 12.0 install cd, and
>> did so successfully, minus the whole key-map problem.
>>
>> I played around with it a little more just now and determined that <F12>
>> was <TAB> and <j> was <ENTER>.  Go figure.  Even attempting to set a
>> different keymap in the Slackware installer didn't help.

I should have pointed out that I have not had this problem when running
Slackware 11.0 as the host operating system and 11.0 as the guest
operating system.

> well, I couldn't boot my slack cd (i need a new cdrom badly) so I booted a
> DSL iso, and apart from switching from dvorak on the host to qwerty on the
> guest, no changes in keymap here. it did go to a 1024x768 window, but not
> full screen.

Can anyone else try this and see if they can duplicate this problem?
Perhaps it is something odd with my hardware?

-- 
It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise,
Than for a man to hear the song of fools.
Ecclesiastes 7:5

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