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

The SW7.1 bare.i does not support framebuffer and I could not find a SW7.1 
kernel which looked like it would, but SW8.1 bare.i does. SW8.1 has a lot 
fewer (and larger) kernels.

experimental = y
video select = y
fb = y
fb vesa =  y (should work with all my cards as vesafb)
fb_con_adv = y
and modules for
matrox  (millenium and other cards = y)
aty
sis
radeon
3dfx (I have one)
voodoo1
Riva

I could NOT find on that same CD any modules for SW8.1 - where might they 
be?  I need FB_CONS for 2-32, possible FB_VGA, FONTS 8x8 and 8x16..... as 
well as matroxfb for SW8.1 kernel.

I tried that kernel anyway with the matrox.

Text console 100x37 worked
Xvesa and xfbdev both worked (Xvesa worked with all kernels so far, I got 
it wrong before;  xfbdev with framebuffer kernels - David's and SW81)
svgalib DOES NOT work with this bare.i kernel but it DOES WORK with 
David's kernel and the BL2 kernel.  I wonder why.

"map error in paged screen memory"

Maybe it is something to do with fb or fb_vesa?

The only advantage to using this card with a framebuffer kernel (David's) 
so far is that it provides nicer looking small text, with no loss of other 
functions.  And if I can find the modules it should also work as a second 
card since multihead is enabled (y).

Still cannot open GPM mouse so I can't use links2 graphically with fb (or 
with this kernel, with svgalib).

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