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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>

> The ATI card, on the other hand, appears to be a Mach 64, because 
> it works terribly (stripey effect as Mach64, displays properly with 
> chipset VESA but crashes on exit, all terminals blank).

I have a Mach64: a 3D Rage Pro AGP card, which is my primary card.

> So I do not recommend EITHER the Virge or the ATI for use with 
> different numbers of columns and/or rows.

My Mach64 works well with Xvesa and Fbdev. I tried svgalib, too.
I didn't even configure it, and it worked great. The trouble I've
had has been mainly 3D work. The 3D Rage is a horrible choice for
that.

> >> Is there any non-X image printing program for linux?
> >
> > Do the netpbm tools count?
> They would if I could compile them.  I may try, and yell for help 
> on how to do this statically so everyone in the list can use them.
> 
> 
> >> I can't print
> >> images in X as root or get Xvesa with rxvt working as user.  You
> >> should not need to view what you are printing so why X?
> >
> > Can't you just kill X and print?
> 
> Is there some way to print CLI with xv?

Why do you need xv to print? Image conversion? Doesn't Image Magick
do that?

> I will try gs with Trio64 instead of Virge video card when I crawl 
> under the desk again to take apart the computer to plug the cable 
> back into Com2. And also try it on the computer with a Virge that 
> is working correctly.
> 
> In both linux and DOS gs -sDEVICE=deskjet keeps displaying to the 
> screen instead of printing on my computer with two video cards 
> where VIRGE is crashing with resizecons.  The gs problem might 
> somehow be related to the resizecons problem.  I tried two versions 
> of DOS gs both of which worked on another computer.
> 
> >> I think I am going to need to learn to compile netpbm.
> >
> > I'll try and compile it. Check my website tomorrow for the binaries.
> 
> It would take me a month.  Can you do it statically?

I didn't compile it statically, BUT you can use it on any i386 PC by
copying these 3 files from BL3:

/lib/libc.so.5
/lib/ld-linux.so.1
/lib/libm.so.5

> Remind us of your URL.  Perhaps James could link to it or copy your 
> files to his site.

http://www.geocities.com/davidjmoberg/pbmtox.tar.gz starts a download
of the tools. I only included the pbmto* ones, for space reasons. Once
you download the package, you need to copy the library from there to
your /lib directory, then you can run any of the converters. If I've
left anything out that you need, or it is buggy/doesn't work at all,
please let me know.

> When resizecons crashes with the Virge, I cannot change the video 
> mode again.  Blank screen, computer does not respond to anything I 
> type, and
> I cannot even reboot.

Does Ctrl+Alt+SysRq+B reboot the PC?

> > I would like to squash this color problem once and for all, by adding
> > an option to Xvesa that allows you to simulate more colors to programs
> > that connect to it. Probably just a dream, but maybe it is possible.
> 
> What do you mean by this?  Fool Opera and Abiword into thinking 
> they have 15-bit color when they have 4-bit?

Yes. When programs like that connect to the X server, they ask for a
description of how many colors the server can handle. This patch
would send an arbitrary amount back to the program. Then, when the
application sends color information, I would convert it on-the-fly
to whatever color depth you are actually using.

> Is anyone still working on XVESA, the 8-bit color problem?  Or has 
> it been abandoned for fb?

What's the 8-bit color problem? You mean incompatibilities (argh...
can't spell today) with certain cards? I believe that's a fault of
the BIOS, and can't be fixed.

David
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