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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

> > When you finally got xvesa running, Steven, at what 
> > color depth did it run?  
> 
> I specified 16 (same as my /etc/XF86Config).  Whether
> it actually came up in 16bit or 8bit color, I don't know.  
> 256 colors is plenty for me.  Apparently Sindi wants more
> than that.
> 
> > Do you think she got an 8 bit version, 
> 
> Perhaps.  From what limited info there is about Xvesa, 
> some things can be left out when you compile it (to make
> it smaller/faster).
> 
> > Or is there maybe some other reason she's not getting 
> > more than 8 bit color?
> 
> It is always possible that a particular piece of hardware
> will produce an unusual result (especially when you 
> mix'n'match components).  However, I assume that Sindi
> is trying Xvesa on several of her machines?

Not yet, so far just on the machine with SiS onboard video for which there 
is no accel driver.  I will try it next with S3 which I have working with 
lots of colors and an s3 driver.  So I don't need xvesa on that computer.
What I wanted it for was for video chips that don't have accel drivers.
I will just move over the executable file and run it from /tmp as 
suggested for RAMdisk BL2.  I can check a Trident card with BL2 RAMdisk 
that way on a third computer. (In fact I could start plugging in all 15 
of our cards to see what worked with xvesa......)


> 
> Cheers,
> Steven
> 
> 
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