So far in my ~6 months of Linux experience, nothing have so completely eluded me as svgalib. I've never gotten it to work at all. There was a time when it crashed my graphics completely, but now it won't even do that. I compiled version 1.4.0 and the demo programs that go with it. Most of them say "Mode not available.". "lineart" says "Invalid mode 10", and "vgatest" says: Choose one of the following video modes: Enter mode number (1-0):
(as if 1-0 were the only available modes). I've edited my libvga.conf to the best of my ability, here's what it looks like: