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

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.
>
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