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

Tried XF86_SVGA with Tseng ET6000 because Abiword won't work in BL2 under 
Xvesa (xset won't work) or xfbdev (does not even get as far as xset not 
working) and it might work with plain X.

> 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!


It turns out that the problem is with rxvt, not the server.  Something to 
do with rxvt can't load "white" or "Black".  I had the same problem with 
the W32 server.

The standard ranges offered by my sample XF86Config file or by xf86config 
when I ran it only let me do 1024x768.  I searched on MV520 (my Compaq 
monitor) and modeline and found someone else's specs and suggested 
modeline, which got me to 1280.  Xvesa and xfbdev do 1280 more easily but 
since I have 2MB video RAM they do it BADLY - 256 colors, blue on black.

My range is 31.5-54kHz hsync, 50-120Hz vert refresh, and I added
Modeline "1280x1024"  8686 1280 1280 1536 1664 1024 1025 1038 1042

1280 looks rather fuzzy but the colors are correct and the monitor at 
least lets me adjust the size and position and shape of the viewing 
screen.  The bottom part of icewm is cut off no matter what size or 
position I use - I see a very narrow white strip only.  ???
No crashes on exit from X.

I have a Matrox card that displays only at 1024 on another monitor that I 
know does 1280 (with Tseng) and will try the X server with researched 
modeline - or is there some way to determine the correct modeline 
yourself?.  (DOS video diagnostic program won't display more than 1024, 
nor will zgv, but one of them USED to work at 1600 and must have failed 
somehow).  We have monitors that won't do more than 800 with S3 or Cirrus 
but do 1024 with Tseng or Trident so xsvga might be the cure for them too.

(Thanks to David for dragging me through this on a nonstandard laptop 
where I was getting 4-color Xvesa).

BUT I CAN'T USE THE ICEWM MENU NOW - rxvt won't work

xinit got me icewm.  Ctrl-ESC brought up the menu.  Opera worked but 
nothing else did other than Logout.  xv xpdf gs.  Even Edit did not work - 
these all rely on rxvt, which seems to be buggy with the tseng card under 
regular X servers.

With XF86_SVGA rxvt 'can't load color "Black"', and with w32 server it 
can't load white OR black.  With Xvesa it works fine.


On exit I also get messages about 'Using ET6000-specific Color-expansion
Indirect CPU to screen color expansion (with svga server - is there some 
advantage to w32 accel?).



So I tried to install xterm (which was already in my menu) by copying it 
from the xbin.tgz package. It needs libXaw.so.6, so I copied that from the 
package and linked to it (as in the install script): ln -s libXaw.so.6.1 
libXaw.so.6 (and also the same for libXaw.so) ldd still says I don't have 
libXaw.so.6 and xterm won't work either and on exit from X it still says 
it can't find that library.

???  How do I get this library recognized?  Rebooting did not help.  The 
other libraries that I copied the same way are recognized.
I tried copying libXaw.so.6.1 to libXaw.so.6 - that does not help either.

I don't want to install 10MB of xbin.tgz just to get one file.


xterm:  error while loading shared libraries:  libXaw.so.6:  cannot open 
shared object file:  No such file or directory

Does this mean libXaw.so.6 is missing something it is dependent on and if 
so, how do I figure out what it is?  An ldd on it shows that everything is 
there (X11 Xext ICE SM Xt Xmu).  (Or does ldd not work on lib files?).

I am ending my experiment because I just tested Xvesa and it crashed on 
exit and I no longer can use my VGA terminals.  xfbdev uses a kernel that 
won't let me mount the CD-ROM drive.  the X servers won't let me use rxvt 
and xterm won't work.  Xvesa is usable (to 1024 with 2MB video RAM) on 
computers without Tseng video but I like that card (it does 100 columns in 
text mode).  Abiword won't work with Xvesa or xfbdev but I really don't 
need it in BL2, it works in BL3.  I would like very much to be able to do 
X with the Tseng cards at 1280, and without crashing.

Is there a more recent rxvt that would work in BL2 with Tseng/svga?
I got the one from Sw7.1.  David, would you want to compile it statically?
The BL3 one is not static, mine is dated 2004 - was this compiled by 
Steven or from Slackware?  67K.

Sindi