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[Neo Sze Wee <neoszewee AT gmx.net>]

On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 07:34:15AM +0000, qwms-avib AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
> Neo Sze Wee wrote:
> > 
> > If I have a very old 486 with 4 ram 
> 
> BL1 will work on that machine.  
> 
> > will I be able to run links 2.1? 
> 
> We have been running links 2.1.9 on BL2.  I would be 
> surprised if it worked on BL1.
> 
> > I asked this because I have tried several compilations of 
> > links 2.x using svgalib and none of them work on console. 
> > I have all the libraries you mentioned here. What can
> > be wrong?
> 
> The svgalib in BL1 is very old and very small.  It only 

I am not using BL1 but something equivalent to BL2.

> does VGA and does not work with programs that try to set 
> higher resolutions.  It also lacks some graphical routines 
> that were added in later versions of svgalib.  

If I am using the latest svgalib and I still have problem with links
2.x, what do you think is the problem? The problem can be: links 2.x
does not work at all; graphich garbage is diaplayed, sometimes with a
big cursor but totally unresponsive to further comman; or nothing at
all, I have to reboot. Maybe my commuter does not have the chip? But yet
I can use zgv.

> 
> > What is vgalib?
> 
> It is a method of displaying graphics without X.  BL1 uses
> svgalib for displaying GIFS in links, for the minesweeper 
> game, for the orb screensaver and for the "Linux Inside"
> logo.
> 
> Cheers,
> Steven
> 
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