Bugzilla Bug 71876

The ebuild for bochs 2.1.1 in portage does not configure bochs with
--enable-vbe. Thus VBE support is disabled per default.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge bochs
2. try to run something requiring a VBE graphics mode in bochs


Actual Results:  
The kernel will fail to boot in bochs as soon as it tries to set a VBE graphics
mode.

Expected Results:  
The bochs virtual machine should have booted successfully, setting up a VBE
graphics mode.

Simply adding --enable-vbe to the 'myconf' variable works fine for me. AFAIK,
turning on that option does not make bochs depend on any more libraries, so it
shouldn't need USE variable to be turned on.

Emerge info output:
Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.0, gcc-3.3.4,
glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r0,
2.6.8 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.8 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) MP 2600+
Gentoo Base System version 1.5.3
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3
Headers:  sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1
Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-mp -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/
/usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/bind /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-mp -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j1"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X aalib alsa apache2 apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bmp bonobo cdr crypt
cscope cups dba dvd encode esd f77 fam flac foomaticdb fortran freetype gd gdbm
gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk2 gtkhtml guile icq imagemagick imap imlib jabber
java jpeg ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg msn mysql
ncurses
nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python quicktime readline samba
sdl
session slang smooth speex spell sqlite ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype
x86 xft2 xml xml2 xmms xv zlib"

thanks for the notice, bochs updated

Closed