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James Miller wrote:
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> > http://www.basiclinux.com.ru/download/Xvesa.gz
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> Hah! I was first!

Yes, you were first.  Even I haven't run it on BL3.

> This Xvesa package works as a drop-in replacement 
> for the Xvesa in BL3 

That's good news.

> I also edited /etc/Xconfig to try different modes. 
> I added x256 to the line 640x480 to start with. 

For 256 colors:  640x480x8

> the colors were all wacko. 

I'm not surprised.  A colour depth of 256 is a very
big  number of colors.  To see what depths your system 
can do:  Xvesa -listmodes

> Next I tried adding x8 in place of x256 in
> /etc/Xconfig. Same situation there: the gui 
> fired up,  But the colors are so wacked out 
> it's not useable 

Oh, that's bad news.  Looks like the 256 color mode 
is still haywire.

> End of report. 

Thanks for your input.  It was very useful.

Cheers,
Steven

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