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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

> > They are both VESA 2.0 compliant.  
> 
> Then you should be able to use the frame-buffer Xserver 
> (xxfb.tgz) instead of XSVGA.  Whether this will give you 
> a better display, I do not know.  I have never tried the 
> FB Xserver.
> 

I installed xxfb.tgz and then ran xf86config.  It did not offer xfb as a 
server so I selected "accel" and then changed it afterwards manually when 
I got an error message "No configured graphics devices for fbdev 
graphics driver in "Screen" section."  I replaced accel with fbdev.

Then I got the error message 'failed to open /dev/fb0'
Do I need to make some link to, or create, /dev/fb0?    If so how and 
where?

I put it back to SVGA for our SiS card with 8M RAM and 1600 res (which 
means I get only 8-bit color and 1280 res).

The (1999) Slackware 7.1 xf86config is from 1997 and our video chip is 
1999.  Would setup work better?  (The gui configuration program).

keesan