Baslinux mailing list

[Ron Clarke <ariadne AT acepia.net.au>]

Hi Robert,

On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 13:30:24 -0600
Robert Steinmetz <rob AT steinmetznet.com> wrote:

> I am trying to get BL3 on running on an old AST Notebook.
> 
> startx
>  results in a black screen and the following errors;
> 
> _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errorno = 111
> <repeat 18 times>
> MENU: cannot open display
> swm: cannot open display , giving up
> 
> Xvesa -list modesVBE version 1.2 (Cirrus Logic GD-7543 VGA)
> DAC is switchable, controller is VGA compatible
> Total memory: 960 kilobytes

    I got exactly the same.  It got fixed when I started to boot into a clean 
DOS - 
with no autoexec.bat or config.sys, then start BL3 from that.

Regards,
        Ron


-- 
Ron Clarke 
AUSREG Consultancy      http://www.valylink.net.au/~ausreg/index.html
Tadpole Tunes           http://tadpole.mytunebook.de/
This mail sent to you from sylpheed running on penguin-power