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["NRK" <nrk19 AT hotmail.com>]

> On Sun, 24 Apr 2005, NRK wrote:
>
> > I am not certain that I understand the question. I am a bit confused
> > about the question of the settings in the Xvesa file. Nevertheless, the
> > settings that I can refer to in Xconfig are as follows:
>
> > 640x480 standard VGA
> > 3 button mouse
>
> standard VGA is 4-bit color (16 colors) and will work on almost anything
> that does color (but not on some Chips and Technologies/Paradise laptops,
> which do only 4 colors in linux but more in DOS or Windows)
>
>
> > Other settings applied such as 640x480x12 for more color, or 800x600 via
> > Xsetup resulted in with a distorted display.
>
> You probably also chose 640x480x12. There is no 12-bit video mode but
> Steven put it as one of the choices rather than 16, I don't know why.  If
> your video card supports 15-bit color, you will get that if you ask for
> 12, otherwise you get 8-bit, which looks very odd (like a 3-year-old
> colored it in) and is not really usable.
>
> If you have 1MB video ram try typing into Xconfig
>
> 640x480x24
> or 800x600x16
>
> If you have 2MB you can try
> 1024x768x16
>
> Or type
> Xvesa -listmodes
>
> then select anything from there that does not say pseudocolor.
> Pseudocolor is 256 colors (8-bit color depth) and Xvesa cannot do it
> right.
>
> I am assuming you have a color monitor.

The video does have 1MB of RAM. So, I tried the appropriate settings as you
suggested, with much optomism. However, both the 640x480x24 and the
800x600x16 did not have the desired outcome. Upon startx the screen displaye
multi colored horizontal bars. The final result was return to terminal
screen with the following:
Int 10h (0x4F09) failed: 0x0100 (function call failed)
I should also note that the screen is color and when using the standard vga
settings, I do have color. The disapointing things is that while using the
browsing feature the images are not present. I am only able to view text.
Thank you for all your suggestions.

Nate