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[Ron Clarke <ariadne AT earthlink.com.au>]

Hi Mikkel,

On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 12:38:45 -0700
David Moberg <davidjmoberg AT gmail.com> wrote:

> On 9/2/05, mikkel Meinike-Nielsen <mimeini AT linuxmail.org> wrote:
> > I have an old laptop compaq contura 4/25c, i486, 25 MHz,
> > 200 mb HD. and I have just installed it. It boots fine and fast. I have 
> > had
> > mulinux on the same laptop and I was able to run X very slow with the VGA
> > server setup. OK her is my problem. When I try startx I (after configure 
> > 480
> > x 640, ps 2 mouse, 2 bottom.) get to messages that I don't have time 
> > enough
> > to read, then I just get black screen even if I wait 5 min.
> 
> It appears that your laptop does not like Xvesa (the X server which is used 
> in
> BL3). I assume that your laptop's BIOS does not do VESA correctly, which 
> Xvesa
> needs in order to get a usable display.

  <snipped>

> > the video chip set is the compaq avga
> > chip. Is there any solution to this problem?
> 
> Since you say that it worked in muLinux with the VGA server (vga16?)
> I assume that vga16 or xsvga will work in BL3. Can someone here post
> directions for installing one of those in BL3?

    There is an add-on for an x-server on the BL3 sites, which replaces xvesa 
automatically.

   Try: http://www.basiclinux.com.ru/add-ons/index.htm and get no-xvesa.tgz

Regards,
         Ron

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