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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

Can you make a boot disk (Win95 boot disk) without autoexec.bat or 
himem.sys?  Boot from that disk and then try BL3.

On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Erik Harperink wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have installed Basic Linux under Windows 95 in the c:\baslin directory as
> it is supposed to. I use the latest Basic Linux  3.1 on a rather old Compaq
> Contura 430 CX (486 intel) laptop with an lcd-screen. The program works
> excellent in text mode, but the xwindows environment does not seem to
> materialise...
>
> When I use Xsetup there is only a choice between VGA and SVGA as a screen.
> The program does not seem to recognise any of the settings of Xsetup
> (problem with an interrupt pointer) and after the startx command the screen
> stays blank. The xwindows was supposed to run in the Alt-F8 session but this
> doesn't work either.

What do you mean by recognizing the settings of Xsetup?  I had problems in 
a previous version with Xsetup - I would type a number and nothing 
happened.  I think this had something to do with the coding for Bold on 
the numbers in the script.  I sort of recall that the problem would cure 
itself after I rebooted.

You can bypass Xsetup and specify the resolution and color depth manually, 
I think.  Try typing:
xinit -- Xvesa

This should get you 640x480 4-bit color (the default) with PS/2 mouse.

xinit -- Xvesa -screen 800x600x16
for SVGA with 16-bit color (65K).

Will this work, Steven?  It works in BL2.

> It seems there is a screen driver that can handle the screen of a laptop...
> Or might this be caused by some other reason. Who can help me ?
>
> Erik
>
>
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