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

On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > Why doesn't BL3 need xset?
>
> It does.  You will find it in /usr/X11R6/bin
>
> Cheers,
> Steven

I found it and tried using it in BL2.

The BL2 xset has a long list of dependencies, including libc.so.6 and 
libX11.so.6.  BL3 has libc.so.5 and libX11.so.6.

With Xvesa the BL2 xset fp+ /fontpath gives me error messages:
X Error: 86
Request Major Code 51  ( ) [ big circle]
Error serial #7
Current Serial #9
This was AFTER I got a couple screenfuls of error messages about missing 
fonts trying to run abiword in BL2.

With xfbdev instead of Xvesa, in BL2, abiword did not even get this far - 
my error message was:
GdkERROR   BadValue
serial 7 error code 2 request_code 51 minor code 0

xfbdev does not crash on exit, like Tseng sometimes does with Xvesa.  Too 
bad it won't work with Abiword.  But it also wont' support 256 colors.


I tried the xset from BL3, which did not work because although I do have 
an acceptable libc.so.5, it did not like my libX11.so.6:
'can't load library libX11.so.6'
Should I copy over the BL3 libX11.so.6 and somehow point xset at it?  (I 
forget how but I did this for a couple of netpbm programs, told them to 
look in a different place for a library).


Next I tried xsvga.tgz (XF86_SVGA).  I could type that file name and get 
into X, but if I copied over a generic XF86Config that worked with SiS and 
S3 and Matrox, it did not work with my Tseng ET6000 PCI VESA 2.0 card, 
though it recognized it and tried to deal with it.

Among other error messages:  Can't load color "Black" and error opening 
security policy file (which I also got for Chips and Technologies but I 
think this could be ignored).  XFree86 is supposed to be buggy for the 
Tseng cards.  I can next try the XF86_W32 server (specific to Tseng) and 
run the configuration program to generate XF86Config.  Wish me luck!

Another problem.  The vesafb kernel which David compiled does not seem to 
recognize fs type iso9660.  mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdd /cd:
'fs type 9660 not supported by kernel'

I will try to (some day) compile my own fb kernel with built-in support 
for the DOS and CDROM file types (like BL2) unless David wants to redo his 
kernel with this support.  This kernel works with my ATI AGP card, Tseng, 
and Matrox, apart from this problem.  Maybe vesafb can't be made to work 
with CD's?  (Like the SMP kernel won't work with pppd).