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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Wed, 12 May 2004, Paulo Orvalho wrote:

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> 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...

Have you loaded a character set different from the standard one?
If I load a Cyrillic font I have problems like what you describe.
Can someone else explain how to display the currently used font in X?  I 
only know how for console mode (showfont I think it is).  

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> > ----- 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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