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

All work out....
Still remains the Xvesa from BL3 and all its ok...
Switch from the setfont load and all worked...I load the keymap and the
kernel does the rest....pt_PT .map
Rxvt works with .bashrc correct settings......
BL2 hardrive ---------------Xvesa from BL3


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sindi Keesan" <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>
To: <baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 11:05 PM
Subject: Re: [BL] Strange lines after startx


> I don't know why your problem occurs after using X since I think
> setfont is for console fonts.
>
>
> If you are using a .psf font, you also have to do something about getting
> the correct unicode map for it.  One way to do this is first to load a
> .psfu font such as viscii (Vietnamese) and after this the .psf fonts will
> be mapped correctly.  Then showfont (I think?) will display the characters
> in the font currently in use.  Setfont puts it back to a default.  You can
> compare the locations of the line drawing characters in the default font
> and in what you have chosen, and then see if loading a unicode font
> followed by latin4 fixed your problem.
>
> You can load viscii and then lat4 in rc.M (?some rc, anyway).
> Another approach is to copy the unicode mapping from viscii (after loading
> it) to a file that you then load.  Read about setfont, it is something
> like (run from the command line after booting into linux)
> setfont visci.... (full name without the .gz.psfu)
> setfont -ou unicode  (this copies the current mapping to 'unicode')
>
> Then put into rc.M  (with the complete path names)
> /usr/bin/setfont -u /usr/local/kbd/consolefonts/unicode
> /usr/bin/setfont /usr/local/kbd/consolefont/lat4....(full name of font)
>
> Then it should load latin 4 with the correct unicode mapping every time
> you start linux.
>
> I may have the details wrong - read the setfont manual page on this.
>
> 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...
> >
> > 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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