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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, James Miller wrote:

> I'll just post some notes I found on running xvesa, since Sindi seemed 
> interested in trying to get it going.  These are just the command line 
> arguments for starting the client:
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> xvesa -mouse /dev/psaux,5 -screen 800x600x32 -shadow -nolisten tcp -I 
> &>/dev/null
> --------------------------------------------------------------------

Do I type the &>/dev/null at the end of the line (no wrap) or is it a 
prompt that snuck in and should be removed?

I still cannot find Steven's other suggestion about what to add where when 
trying XVESA but I vaguely recall having done this already a few days ago.
To the batch file used to boot with bare.i.  I try to follow suggestions 
before losing them.  

I think the instructions are to use a VESA 2.0 card, install devs.tgz, use
bare.i with that added word or phrase in the boot file, and then type in
your command line to start X.  Do you know what -shadow and -nolisten and
the part after that mean?

A friend just gave me an ATI Mach something and another S3 Trio64V+ card 
to try if Xvesa does not work - they should both have accel drivers.  


> (sorry about the line wrapping - my email client).  In DamnSmallLinux, 
> from whence I copied this information, one actually started the xserver 
> with "X" in place of "xvesa" - since X was symlinked to xvesa.  But that's 
> sort of a trivial point I think.  Hope this helps or is of interest.
> 
> James
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