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  • From: "David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] SVGA Xserver
  • Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 19:57:34 -0500

----- Original Message -----
From: 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org

> One of my computers refuses to work with Xvesa.
> It has a weird onboard video that I have never
> heard of. I considered de-activating the onboard
> video and installing one of my spare video cards,
> but first I thought I'd try a different X server.
>
> So I installed the XSVGA server from Slackware 4.0
> and created an appropriate /etc/XF86Config. It worked
> fine once I had added the cursor font and rgb table
> (which are included in Xvesa, but not in an ordinary
> X server).
>
> So now I'm running BL3 at a color depth of 8.
> 256 colors. Looks good.
>
> Perhaps I should make a wee package to install the
> font/rgb files, modify startx and provide xf86config?

I'm sure that many of us would appreciate this. I would
certainly like to try this with my graphics cards. Can
you get higher refresh rates than 60Hz?
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  • Re: [BL] SVGA Xserver, David Moberg, 04/28/2005

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