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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> 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.

Xvesa is working for us with Win98 DOS including himem.sys. Can we use
the Win98 DOS himem.sys to replace that in DOS 6.22, whic gives a 
black screen?

> 
> 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
> 
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