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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

I have Xvesa working fine with AGP cards on two Win98 computers with Win98 
DOS, and on several computers with DR_DOS.  It even worked with a Win98 
boot disk with himem.sys on another computer with an S3 Trio 64 PCI card.

But I have one Gateway P233 computer with Win98 and an S3 Virge PCI video 
card where Xvesa won't work unless I boot with DR-DOS.  Also won't work 
with a Trident PCI card.  Is there something odd about Gateways?  The 
other two Win98 computers with AGP cards both have AMD K6 cpus and I think 
this one does too.  

Xvesa.  'Illegal instruction'.  

Solution is to reboot with either DR-DOS boot disk or with F5 to bypass 
system files when planning to use Xvesa, but that is a nuisance.  
Or I suppose I could put DR-DOS on this computer and boot Win98 from a 
floppy disk.    

Has anyone else had problems with Xvesa and himem.sys from Win98?

Sindi