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

On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 03:01:13PM -0400, keesan2 AT cyberspace.org wrote:
> > > > I cannot run these programs with svgalib. 
> > > 
> > > Have you tried BL1 on that computer?  It has svgalib 
> > > preconfigured.  Just run "fun" and select Orb, Minefield, 
> > > or Linux Inside (they all use svgalib).
> > >
> > 
> > I may be able to run those programs but the one I like running is links2 
> > is
> > not running. I want to check out how links2 renders graphics compared to 
> > zgv,
> > which I am able to run fine with chipset set to vga in libvga.conf.
> 
> 
> Is svgalib in BL1 set to use a vga chipset?  If so, you can look at how it

First of all I am using a BL2 equivalent slackware. Actually it is the
rescue disk from the slackware 9 plus ppp plus any package I like.

The setting in libvga.conf is almost the same whether it is BL1
(slackware using libc5) or BL2 (slackware using libc6). The thing that
might be critical is the vertical and horizontal frequency and the
modes. I use the libvga.conf supplied with the svgalib package and only
modified the chipset. With such modification I can run zgv and seejpeg
and gallery, another graphics viewer, but not links2.

> was done and then do the same thing in BL2 and maybe Links2 will work
> then.  Steven is suggesting that you first see if the BL1 graphics
> programs based on svgalib work on your hardware, and if so, then you just
> need to configure svgalib properly for BL2 (first try the same settings as
> BL1, then you can experiment with other settings that will give more
> colors than 16).
> 
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