<html dir="ltr"><head></head><body style="text-align:left; direction:ltr;"><div>On Sun, 2021-11-14 at 16:40 +0100, Abou Al Montacir wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><br></div><pre>Version: 1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u1</pre></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Hmm, against my 1:4.2 .....</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><pre>I think I forgot to say that you need to use the serial rather than the VGA output of QEMU. </pre><div>Use meny View/serial0 or hit Ctrl+Alt+3 (may need shift depending on keyboard).</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I suspect thats more my problem than anything.</div><div><br></div><div>So, I tried connecting via a serial port (wow, long time since I used minicom) and, yes, I can connect to install process that way. But its pretty useless for what I had in mind, I had planned to try and build Lazarus and tomboy-ng, both are GTK (or Qt) apps so, not very useful over a serial interface !</div><div><br></div><div>So, do I assume that the sparc emulation does not do a GUI interface ?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>I'm going anyway to check ppc64el for doublecmd on a porter machine, so I may test on it rather than building a qemu image.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I can build a viable ppc64el vm here so I can do that test for you if you like ? Right now it has a FPC and Lazarus direct from FPC themselves rather than a Debian install but I can 'fix' that.</div><div><br></div><div>Especially if I can come to grips with this backing_file approach. ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>Davo</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><pre><br></pre></blockquote></body></html>