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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
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  • Subject: [BL] can Xvesa zoom?
  • Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 19:37:11 +0000 (UTC)

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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