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

Ctrl-Alt-+ or - changes screen size in Xfree86 but not in Xvesa.
Can Xvesa also enlarge the screen image somehow?

I cannot read the gs display in X.  Formerly I used vgalib and bmv and 
could enlarge that way.  Myabe gs has some switch that I can use instead.

I discovered that the XF86config for a sis video card and compaq monitor 
continues to work for an S3 virge card.  XSVGA server.  I picked the 
lowest monitor settings since we often switch monitors.  Perhaps I can 
come up with a default config file that will work on anything VESA 1.2 or 
greater, with any monitor, using that server, and assuming 2MB RAM and 
1280 max resolution.  Steven, perhaps you want to try this since you 
understand X better.  This would let BL users use computers that only go 
to 256 colors with iword and Links2 or even my strange laptop that Xvesa 
thinks is 4-color.  The target could have 512K RAM - I think this will 
give 256 colors in 640 res, and 16 colors at 800 res.

I was surprised that Virge worked with XSVGA since it won't work as 
VESA with SVGAlib, and it does have its own server.  Probably that server 
works better (more resolution?) than xsvga but I would just like something 
that I can use with any setup, which is not Xvesa.

Since we have disposable (old fuzzy) monitors I may set up a test computer 
and try out various video cards on it that way with xsvga.

Xvesa continues to do odd things. Last night after using it my white text 
started to appear in various colors (it would change from green to yellow 
to pink whenever I went in or out of kermit on the other terminal, which 
is TTL/mda).  Then everything disappeared that was not in bold.  I had to 
reboot to fix the problem.


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