Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

baslinux - Re: [BL] XVESA on a Compaq 486 laptop - impossible pallette format

baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: Baslinux mailing list

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] XVESA on a Compaq 486 laptop - impossible pallette format
  • Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 21:08:10 +0000 (UTC)

The videochip and screen do 640x480x4 (XVESA -listmodes and also lxpic and pictview). Xvesa works, startx does not, so I made an alias X

'Xvesa &rxvt -e icewm'

Is there some better alias? The rxvt that I get this way is
too wide for my screen and I will be using theone set up in themenu (icewm) anyway so I don't need it to stay aftericewm loads.

I have the same problem using xinit (xinit -- /usr/X11/bin/Xvesa) as using startx.



On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, sindi keesan wrote:

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
_______________________________________________
BasLinux mailing list
BasLinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/baslinux


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




Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page