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[David Moberg <davidjmoberg AT gmail.com>]

Ken Martwick wrote:

> One of the motivations, besides the challenge itself, was to try to get
> the Lucent modem working under BL 3.  There were a few problems, but the
> highly-automated build script finally worked well.

<snip>

> It all seems to work fine, though I have not yet gotten X to work.

Do you want to share the modules that you have built with us? If
you have no place to host them, you can email them to me.

> Is there aversion of Xfbdev that can be used?

You can download one from Sindi's site:
http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl/xfbdev

This is a version that I compiled some time ago, for experimental
use with framebuffer kernels. IIRC it crashed a lot with 2.2.16
but I think that was due to bugs in the x.16 framebuffer driver.
It should work well with BL3.4; by some quirk of the way I
compiled it, it only needs /lib/ld-linux.so.1 and libm.so.5. You
also need to be in framebuffer mode for it to work, of course.

Are you booting DOS without config.sys or autoexec.bat?
Xvesa has been known to shatter into a thousand pieces
if it is used with loadlin and certain memory managers. I'm
not sure if Xfbdev suffers from the same problem.

David