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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Wed, 12 May 2004, Paulo Orvalho wrote:

> I do load a font for the pt_PT.map keymap at startup
> setfont lat4-16.psf...

Hurray!  It really helps to have people of different backgrounds in this 
mail list.  I work as a translator, and when I load Russian the lines also 
turn into A, or other extended ASCII characters (plus or minus) instead of 
the line drawing characters in the default upper ASCII set.

In DOS I once designed a few fonts with a font editor.  There must be 
something similar for linux that would let you change a few of the 
characters in your Portuguese font so that you would see lines where you 
expect them.  Can you use something other than lat4 as the font?

Console (VGA) fonts designed for DOS also work in linux.
Simtel net has several free font editors and many VGA fonts.

Let us know what you learn.  You may have to read the instructions for 
setfont carefully.  

> I commented out the line at start up and it solved it.... :)
> But i need a special font for the pt_PT.map, i will try others and see...
> But thanxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.....
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Sindi Keesan" <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>
> To: <baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 10:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [BL] Strange lines after startx
> 
> 
> > On Wed, 12 May 2004, Paulo Orvalho wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > 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).
> >
> > >
> > > > ----- 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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