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

On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, sindi keesan wrote:

> It gets 93942 bytes as usual (about 90K) and then stops.
> I tried this multiple times with wget and lynx.  Something in the file is 
> causing the download to terminate.  Maybe a bzip version would download 
> better?  I will try to download to my shell account now instead of to my 
> computer.

It downloaded to my shell account in about 3 seconds, the whole file and 
thence with kermit to my computer.
I wonder what is going wrong when I download via the ISP.

I tested this in BL2  in 8-bit color at t640 80 and 1204.  Unlike the 
delilinux version, ther are no white vertical stripes when loading but I 
still get a black screen and eventually a blue rxvt (not using icewm, just 
Xvesa and rxvt).  If I use icewm the colors come out pale instead of 
primary.

They are pastel (black/light blue/pink/purple/light green) instead of dark 
(black/blue/red/green).  Same for Opera - predominantly pink instead of 
dark olive green (on Trident video card).

This might make it easier to see the screen in Opera if I want to run at 
8-bit, on a computer where it is that or nothing (no higher color depth 
available).

I then tested with 24-bit color and Opera, xv and xpdf display as 
expected, so this is working as well as the delilinux version but in a 
different set of 8-bit colors.

I will try it eventually on the Compaq laptop in 16-bit mode to see if I 
get more than 4 colors there.

Your new statically compiled Xvesa is about 8/9.5 the size of the 
delilinux one, which needs libc, libm, and ld-linux.  This is nice.
If it were dynamically compiled to use uClibc it should be even smaller.

I was able to read the words in Opera in 8-bit mode.  I tried links2 8-bit 
and got colored blotches instead of the menu at screen top.  Links2 works 
fine in 24-bit mode.

Opera 6 works in 2-bit color (but not very well, it crashes a lot).

It is nice to have an Xvesa that works in both Bl2 and Bl3 and is smaller 
than the delilinux one, however imperfect it may still be.  Thanks.