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

On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > > Abiword from SW91 asked me to install more than
> > > 16 packages,
> >
> > Steven, how did you get around this need for 16 packages,
>
> I installed all the necessary packages on my system
> and then compiled a static binary (without dependencies).
> That's why AbiWord works on BL2 and BL3.
>
> Cheers,
> Steven

Abiword works on BL2 with X but not with the delilinux Xvesa, which does 
not work with xset.  I have two video cards that I cannot get to work in X 
(I did not try with the 16-color VGA server because Abiword does not work 
with 16 colors).

It works in BL3 with the Xvesa that Steven compiled statically.

It won't work at all with xfbdev because it is missing some file 
extension.

I just got Abiword working in BL2 using the Xvesa from BL3.  I had for 
some reason thought I would need to use the BL3 xset with it so did not 
think of this until now.

Did  Steven use later source code for Xvesa?  Xvesa that came with 
BL3 is 869580 bytes, Feb 16 2004.

The delilinux dynamically compiled version is 945896, Aug 28, 2004.

I have another statically compiled version, 816460 bytes, Jan 31, 
2005.

Steven, how does this differ from what came in BL3?  It does NOT work with 
abiword and it is statically compiled.  Different library?  Should I just 
delete it?

My best video card, an AGP S3Trio3D in which framebuffer, svgalib, Xvesa 
all work, won't display at all with X, which I thought Abiword needed.

Why might this card, using the S3Virge server, insist on using only modes 
that require HSync above 70KHz?  I have modelines for many others for 
lower resolutions and also for 1024x768 at lower HSync.  The server 
deletes all the modes it can find and then gives up because my monitor 
goes to only 70KHz. whatvga2, svgalib and Xvesa work at 1600x1200.

Online research found me one site where people with Debian gave up and 
used the VGA16 server, and another where they got the card to work in X at 
8-bit color and 1024 resolution max.

Is X needed for anything if you can get Xvesa to work?  I have one laptop 
and two Tseng cards that don't work with Xvesa but two of them work with 
X, and two Matrox cards that don't work with X but work with Xvesa.

Should it not be possible to get X working using the same frequencies as 
Xvesa?  Do I need to add my own modelines like I did for the laptop?