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

whatvga2 says we have a Paradise WD something-or-other video chipwith 1M 
video RAM, and in DOS it willdisplay on this screen at 640x480 and 16, 
256, 32K or 64K colors.  In XVESA only in 4 colors.  The intended 
recipient of the computer does not want to browse with links using xli at 
4 colors so I put on seejpeg and required libraries and set links2 to use 
seejpeg instead of xli as the viewer (Setup, associated...).  This looks 
much better (in CLI mode) than under XVESA in 4-color mode with xli.

Then I tried typing X to use links with seejpeg in XVESA and got 
_X11TransSocketUNIX Connect:....errno-111..

So SVGALIB appears to be interfering with XVESA.  There is no very good 
reason to use links2 in CLI mode under XVESA so I will not bother to 
reboot, load XVESA and then try SVGALIB (seejpeg) under XVESA unless 
someone asks me to do so.

XVESA has a lot of problems.

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, sindi keesan wrote:

> 640x480x4 is 4-color, not 4-bit color.  For some reason XVESA is only seeing 
> this video chip as 4-color.  The DOS viewers recognize it as 16 color.  This 
> is why startx won't work because it is set to 4-bit color. We would be better 
> off with plain VGA in X on this computer, which used to be set up with BL1. 
> Is there some easy way to use the BL1 VGA setup in Bl3?
>
> Perhaps SVGALIB will be happier with this hardware than XVESA.
>
> This rxvt in icewm has about 68 columns and my mail (pine) 80.
>
> On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, sindi keesan wrote:
>
> > 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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