When I activate a program in the command line the screen goes black for a second then returns to the command line with some error messages. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Start any svgalib program, like lincity, kiki, or xu4. 2. 3. Actual Results: I receive the aforementioned error messages. svgalib: Failed to initialize mouse. svgalib: Signal 11: Segmentation fault received. Segmentation fault Expected Results: I feel the software should have activated the program instead of crashing. My emerge --info: Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.11-gentoo-r8 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r8 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, May 6 2005, 20:15:10)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: [Not Present] sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.8.5-r3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.6.3, 1.4_p6, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r7 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.16 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo/ http://src.gentoo.plhttp://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aalib aim alsa apache2 apm arts audiofile avi bash-completion berkdbbitmap-fonts bzlib cdparanoia cdr crypt cups curl divx4linux emboss encode esd fam flash foomaticdb fortran ftp gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 icq imagemagick imlib ipv6 jabber jack java javascript joystick jpeg kde kdexdeltas ldap libg++ libwww mad mbox memlimit mikmod ming mmx motif mp3 mpeg msn msql ncurses nls oav ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl php png python qt quicktime readline real sambasdl spell sse sse2 ssl svga symlink tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb v4l videos vorbis win32codecs xine xml2 xmms xv xvid yahoo zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS My /etc/svgalib/libvga.config(possibly the problem): monitor 30-50 50-110 mouse IMPS2 mdev /dev/input/mice
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