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sindi keesan wrote:
>
> > Why?  AbiWord works fine on BL2.  Your choice of Xserver
> > shouldn't change that.
> 
> I thought you said it will not work with Xvesa.  

It works with Xvesa in BL3.  Why wouldn't it work with
Xvesa in BL2?

> This was something about Abiword fonts.  

The problem with AbiWord fonts occured with an old
version of BL3 (which did not have xinit and xset).

> > I haven't tried installing glibc2 on BL3, but I did try it
> > on BL1 and it seemed to work fine.
> 
> Lovely, do I just install the so package or what?  

That's what I did on BL1.  

> I don't want to overwrite the libc5 files.

Try it first on the loop version (after saving a backup
copy of fs.img).  It's great for such experiments.

Cheers,
Steven

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