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

I tried out this package on my Matrox Millenium II and it works.
I will look for a list of other cards that work with it.

Problems along the way.

BL3 would not mount my 40X CD-ROM drive so I chrooted to BL2 to do it.  I
have the three modules installed and I typed -t iso9660 but it would not
mount the drive (I forgot to copy down the error message).
Maybe I am doing something wrong.  Or could this drive be too new for
'mount'?

We have three other drives that work in DOS but not BL2 - 4X and 8X.
Why? Two take oakcdrom.sys.  One is very slow to boot unless we give it a
.sys specific to that drive.


Second problem:

I type startx and get a nice 800x600x256 icewm.  None of my aliases work
in the rxvt in Xterm.  (I think I had this problem before).  Why?

Third problem:
Default mouse is still 2button serial.  Fine for older laptops but even
one of our two 486 laptops has a PS/2 mouse.

Could you set up XF86Config with the PS/2 mouse line but with # in front
of it so people can quickly edit the file instead of running the config
program?

Also could you include # 1024 resolution or is that specific to each card?
Could I edit the config file to remove 800x600 for a computer with
monochrome screen and 640x480 resolution, other than with the config
program?  I think the two computers I have which do only 256 colors also
do only 640 resolution. But using XSVGA instead of linux would be helpful
on computers which do 1024 as well, for cases where people are having to
bypass config.sys, or having other Xvesa problems.

Maybe you could eventually write up a simple script to edit the config
file to change just mouse and max resolution and colors, as for Xvesa.


The main reason I am using Xvesa is that xf86config took me three days to
get right each time.  (Also Xvesa lets me choose resolution and color
depth each time I use it - 640 for viewing our photos, 1024 to view wide
websites).

This server is, unfortunately, nearly 4 times the size of Xvesa, even
without including fonts.  Not suitable for a 2-floppy linux.  I wonder if
someone knowledgeable could write a smaller version of it.