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

Toshiba Satellite with Chips and Technologies 82c455 video chip, displays 
in DOS at 800x600 (Pictview), crashes Xvesa.

I installed Slackware 4.0 xsvga.tgz and am using my generic XF86Config for 
800 resolution (which worked with Matrox and Tseng cards).

It gets past 'error opening security policy file.' but then:

Fatal server error:  could not open default cursor font 'cursor'.

BL2 has 5K /usr/X11R6/lib/misc/cursor.pcf.gz.  Not library dependent. 
I copied it to BL3.40, did not help.  Then I added to fonts.dir

cursor.pcf.gz           cursor
and changed the 5 on the first line to 6 (there are now 6 fonts).

Perhaps cursor.pcf.gz should be added to BL3.4.1 so it will work with 
X-SVGA on laptop computers that don't work with Xvesa.

Got past the cursor problem and now:
rxvt:  can't load color "Black".
Look at rgb.txt: it has both black and Black.  Now what?

.xinitrc loads an rxvt.  I removed the rxvt.
Now I get a lot of vertical colored lines, the ones at the rightmost keep 
changing, and there is 1" of vertical black stripe at far right.
Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

icewm - load pixmap failed (several lines of this).

swm gives  a similar effect, but a grid instead of most of the 
vertical stripes and no message about pixmap.

I hit Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to exit both wm's.

If I remark out all of .xinitrc it gets to the security policy line and 
then exits X by itself.

X_SVGA in theory supports this exact chip, according to a 1995 man page,
in 8-bit color.  ct455/82c455

Steven, could you try X_SVGA with BL3.40 please?

I tried 3.40 with both 3.40 (2.2.26) and 3.32 (2.1.16) kernels and with
SW4.0 X_SVGA - should I try a later X_SVGA?

We have not used this laptop with any X before.

The Compaq laptop with wd chip worked with X_SVGA and special modelines. 
I don't recall needing any extra cursor fonts in BL3.32 or having problesm 
with Black.  I think we used SW4.0 X_SVGA since we don't have libc6 on 
there.

I have not tried BL3 with non-Xvesa X on any other computer.  X_SVGA 
worked fine on several desktops in BL2 with SiS, S3, Matrox (non-fb), 
Tseng, ATI.

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Today the PCMCIA network card is being recognized and the modules 
installed but I get an 'nc connect failed' type of message.  It worked 
yesterday until the kernel crashed.  Both times with 3.32, yesterday 
2-floppy and today ext2.   Connection is to a different desktop computer 
but both have rtl8139 cards and BL2 with kernel 2.4.31.  Network cards 
frequently do this but usually reinstalling the modules gets them working 
again.  I wanted to copy BL2 via ethernet not parport.

keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org