Baslinux mailing list

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

Compaq 486 75MHZ DX with 24MB RAM, displays images nicely in DOS. Won't 
work right with FreeDOS - stray 7's appear (8 of them after the prompt 
whenbooting - 2 added to beginning of filewhen using a text editor, 1 
instead of y/n when you try to reformat the hard disk) so we switched to 
MSDOS7.1.  Using himem.sys and emm386.exe, which have never given XVESA 
problems before.

I set up for 640x480 4-bit color, PS/2 mouse 2 button (there is a 
trackball) and then typed startx.  Along with the usual font path not 
found I am told: Impossible pallette format.

Has anyone else had either the 7 or the pallette problem?

I will try DOS viewers and then maybe SVGALIB and zgv.

keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org