Baslinux mailing list

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

If you are booting into BL3 from DOS with loadlin, and are not using 
FreeDOS, DR-DOS or MS-DOS 7.1 (Win9X or later), himem.sys (or I think even 
in DOS 7.1 also smartdrv.exe) can interfere with Xvesa, which is used by 
BL3 for video.  You can boot without config.sys either by deleting it, 
using a boot floppy without it, or hitting F5 every few seconds during 
boot, which will tell you 'bypassing system files'.

See if this fixes the problem.  I was making a guess at your symptoms.

Xvesa is a one-size-fits-all program with some inadequacies, but it is a 
lot easier to set up.

You could also try the 2-floppy BL3 with lilo, no DOS involved.

On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, NRK wrote:

> > 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
> _______________________________________________
> BasLinux mailing list
> BasLinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/baslinux

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