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["Paulo Orvalho" <paulo.orvalho AT pifertubos.pt>]

Just tried that ( substitute xvesa ) and no deal....:(((( I got the same
problem......
Also i boot directly from the hardrive....
The lines are still not drawn.... I get instead of a line
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA...

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sindi Keesan" <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>
> To: <baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 5:00 PM
> Subject: Re: [BL] Strange lines after startx
>
>
> > On Wed, 12 May 2004, Paulo Orvalho wrote:
> >
> > > BasicLinux 2.10 with the Xvesa setup of BasicLinux 3.20
> > >
> > > I tried it on 3 or 4 different computers and i get the same result....
> >
> > Steven can explain it to you better, but I think you are not supposed to
> > mix programs from these two versions of linux because they use different
> > basic libraries.  Slackware through version 4 used libc5 and later
> > versions used libc6 also known as glibc.  You can probably use the
> > programs from Slackware 7 in later versions of Slackware, or from
> > Slackware 3 with Slackware 4, but you cannot mix versions with different
> > libc numbers.
> >
> > BL2 is based on Slackware 7, BL3 on Slackware 3 with a kernel 2.2.16
> > (similar to that in BL2) that Steven compiled to be very small.  You can
> > use Slackware 3 or 4 programs with BL3.
> >
> > Look for an Xvesa.tgz (xvesa.tgz) at delilinux that was compiled for
> > Slackware 7.1 and substitute that for the one from BL3, for use in BL2.
> >
> > Also you cannot use Xvesa after booting with MS-DOS 6.22.  Try DR-DOS or
> > the DOS from Win9x.   Or hit F5 while booting MS-DOS to bypass the
> > config.sys files.  himem.sys interferes with Xvesa.
> >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "David Lane" <Jaypooh3 AT hotmail.com>
> > >
> > >
> > > > Hardware/version of Basic Linux please,
> > > >
> > > > David Lane
> >
> > David, you certainly asked a leading question!
> >
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