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

On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > So SVGALIB appears to be interfering with XVESA.
>
> Yes indeed.  They fight for the same screen.

But I thought I had unloaded SVGALIB when I went out of seejpeg and then 
tried to load XVESA.  Something must have been left in memory.

> > XVESA has a lot of problems.
>
> I agree.  But I can find nothing so small/simple
> that works better.

DOS?  We will use it on this computer toview with more than 256 colors.


> > the default for Xvesa is 4-bit color and I cannot
> > find any way to set it to less than this with Xconfig
> > Just running Xvesa without xinit seems to auto-choose
> > some available mode
>
> You can get "auto-choosing" by removing the $1 parameter
> from the startx script.


I tried removing $1,and then also -screen $1, and I still get the same 
impossible pallette message when I type startx.  I will stick with the 
alias for Xvesa (which uses 4-color mode tho xinit apparently cannot) and 
avoid xinit (or probably not use Xvesa on this computer at all 
but try to get the SVGA server to display 256 or more colors - do I pick 
the lowest possible hor and vert settings?  LCD color 640x480x64K max 
colors in DOS).

Hm, to use dosemu with a CAD program I need X.  But 4-color ought to be 
fine.

 > 
Cheers, > Steven
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