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

On Sun, 20 Mar 2005, David Moberg wrote:

> > > > Could I add to .xinitrc as first line 'resizecons 80x25'?  My only
> > > > serious problem with Xvesa other than on one laptop is that it
> > > > messes up my console when it exits.
> > >                            ^^^^^^^^
> > > Xinitrc is executed when X starts up. How would that help?
> >
> > I have rc.S set to 'resizecons 80x30'.  (I had to do this three
> > times in a row to get a full 30 lines instead of just 25 lines of
> > smaller text). If I go into Xvesa with the virtual terminals set to
> > 80x30, then things get very messed up and I lose my cursor in MDA
> > or VGA (when I exit Xvesa). Exiting from 80x30 to plain 80x25
> > should eliminate this particular problem with Xvesa (assuming I
> > have not also loaded another font).
> >
> > I could perhaps do this in an alias instead:
> > 'resizecons 80x25; xinit -- /usr/X11R6/bin/Xvesa ....'
> >
> > I will experiment with this.  Is there some way to set up an alias
> > so that when I exit it goes back to 80x30?
>
> resizecons 80x25; startx; resizecons 80x30
> ^ Try that. You can make it into an alias.

Okay, thanks.  In BL2 I am not using startx but xinit....., and in BL3 
there is no support for different console font sizes (unless I use the BL2 
kernel instead).

>  [what kind of mice are causing trouble?]
> > All PS/2 mice.  I have a source of free mice and will just keep
> > trading until they all work with everything.  I want to keep the
> > serial ports free for use with external modem and nullmodem cable.
>
> gpm in repeater mode may help, and/or a different Xserver.

All the mice work with gpm.  It is Xvesa or svgalib that give problems.
Simplest just to change mice.  Eventually I will get the Virge and S3 X 
and ATI X servers working.

> David
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