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

On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 11:00:19PM -0500, James Miller wrote:
> On Fri, 16 May 2003, Ron Clarke wrote:
> 
> > > posted to the old survpc list about this a few months back.  Anyway, the
> > > address is: ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/delilinux/deli/ap/ .
> >
> >    I got this one, installed with installpkg, and it works out of the
> > box for BL2.02, for JPEG, GIF, BMP. I still have to test it on PNG.
> >
> > Later:  It works for .PNG too.   (I had already installed the graphic
> > libraries - libjpeg, libpng, etc.. or whatever they are called.)
> >
> >   OK, it is very slow (a 33 MHz CPU tends to slow everything down) but
> > it IS working, and as a plug-in for Lynx as well.
> >
> >    Thanks James.   :)
> >
> You're welcome.  I can't seem to get zgv working on my BL2 system - not
> because of this file or anything, but likely because something isn't
> configured correctly.  I'm suspecting that it's libvga.conf.  The symptom

Try setting the chipset in libvga.conf:

# If a chipset driver gives trouble, try forcing VGA.
 chipset VGA            # Standard VGA

> is that, when I type "zgv" from the command line, I get a grey rectangle
> centered top to bottom in the middle of my screen, the top and bottom
> thirds of the screen being black.  The rectangle stretches across the
> width of the screen.  After this, my display becomes useless.  I can't
> ctrl-alt-Fx to any other virtual consoles I may have open (same grey
> rectangle appears on all of them).  Pressing ctrl-c in the offending
> console makes the ledt and right edges of the rectangle go fuzzy and
> causes a high-pitched faint tone to emmanate from the monitor.  The only
> thing that can return the display to normalcy is ctrl-alt-del - a reboot.
> Incidentally, the same symptoms occur when, after I've run links in
> console mode (links -g 640x480x16) I exit the program (hit the "q" key).
> Can anyone give some insight into what might be the problem here, and
> maybe pointers on how to fix it?
> 
> Thanks, James
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