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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
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  • Subject: Re: [BL] Starting xwindows to no avail in basic linux
  • Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 04:48:48 +0000 (UTC)


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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