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Robert Steinmetz wrote:
>
> I installed BasicLinux 3.02 (BL3) on a Toshiba Libretto C50, 
> Pentium 70, 32 MB of RAM.  I have loaded BL3 and it works fine 
> in character mode.  But when I go "startx" the screen goes black 
> and there is no mouse pointer.

Sounds like the usual Xvesa conflict (some DOS devices/TSRs do 
something that confuses Xvesa).  I suggest you boot DOS without 
config.sys, without autoexec.bat, and without windows.  If that 
works, you can use trial-and-error to figure out exactly which 
device/TSR is causing the conflict.  For me it was HIMEM.SYS 
(from DOS 6.22).  When I replaced it with the HIMEM.SYS from 
DOS 5, the clash disappeared.  There is also a known clash with 
some implementations of SMARTDRV.

I'm hoping that someday we will discover a simple fix for the 
Xvesa clash -- like a loadlin parameter that completely wipes
the detritus left by DOS.

Cheers,
Steven