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  • From: 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org
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  • Subject: Re: [BL] Xvesa
  • Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 15:39:38 +1300

James Miller wrote:
>
> > ----------------------------------------------
> > http://www.basiclinux.com.ru/download/Xvesa.gz
> > ----------------------------------------------
>
> Hah! I was first!

Yes, you were first. Even I haven't run it on BL3.

> This Xvesa package works as a drop-in replacement
> for the Xvesa in BL3

That's good news.

> I also edited /etc/Xconfig to try different modes.
> I added x256 to the line 640x480 to start with.

For 256 colors: 640x480x8

> the colors were all wacko.

I'm not surprised. A colour depth of 256 is a very
big number of colors. To see what depths your system
can do: Xvesa -listmodes

> Next I tried adding x8 in place of x256 in
> /etc/Xconfig. Same situation there: the gui
> fired up, But the colors are so wacked out
> it's not useable

Oh, that's bad news. Looks like the 256 color mode
is still haywire.

> End of report.

Thanks for your input. It was very useful.

Cheers,
Steven

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