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

If i dial the BBS directly and then ssh from there to here (both are shell 
accounts) pine appears at 80x25 and then so does everything I do 
afterwards.  If I ssh here directly via my ISP the rows and columns remain 
at their original settings.  Fixed.

The Voodoo card acts just like the Matrox card apart from having 8X the 
RAM and getting a lot hotter, and it does NOT work with svgalib.

So if you don't want to bother with XF86Config and a regular X server, 
these two cards could be used with framebuffer and xfbd.  They do NOT work 
well with Xvesa (they work, but when you exit the console is too dim to 
read).  If you are happy doing everything in X, they are okaywith Xvesa.


The Stealth II S220 with 4MB RAM works fine with Xvesa but not at all with 
xfbdev.  It won't work with resizecons.  It is best used with the 
framebuffer kernel if you want more text modes, but with Xvesa as the X 
server.

All the cards work with framebuffer text modes.


Framebuffer is usful where you want more text modes if the card won't 
support resizecons, and with cards that won't support Xvesa at all.

The regular Bl3 kernel is 435K, the framebuffer kernel which David 
compiled, that was supposed to also support S3 cards in fb mode but does 
not seem to do so, is 479K.

These might be the same size without the S3 patch, and usable to run BL3 
2-floppy on a system with framebuffer support that did not work with 
Xvesa.  I don't know if you could simply substitute xfbdev for Xvesa - 
anyone want to try this?  I am in Bl2 right now.

It might even work from 2 floppy disks BL3.


Xvesa is 945K and works with the regular kernel
To change text modes you need another 17K of files = 962K total
plus another kernel option found in BL2 but not BL3 which may be in this 
fb kernel (ability to select VGA text modes)

xfbdev is 969K

So there is little if any size difference between framebuffer/xfbdev and 
resizecons/Xvesa.

Are there other people on the list using VESA 2.0 cards which don't work 
with Xvesa?

This still  does not fix Chips and Technologies problems - laptops where 
Xvesa thinks you have 4 color when is really 16M.

Any ideas on links2 -g and the GPM mouse which is not being opened in 
framebuffer mode?


keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org