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

We set up a DFI computer (the sort that won't boot from any DOS except MS 
DOS) wtih Trident video and AMD K6 133Mhz cpu, which hwinfo says failed 
some test and has a bug.

Xvesa won't work in BL3 or Bl2 - 'illegal instruction'

I tried no-xvesa.tgz with XF86_SVGA (trident and Trio32 S3 cards) and 
XF86_S# (S3 card) and rant Xsetup.

Startx tellms no 'No server X in path.

Set tells me that X is in a directory that is no the path.
xinit tells me
X: 1: Syntax error "(" unexpected.

In BL3 I was able to load X with startx and Xvesa anyway but it crashed 
linux and I had to power off.  BL2 just complained about it.

The hard drive was just put here and came from a computer where it worked 
with Matrox  or Tseng and Xvesa (from BL3, in Bl2 or BL3).

So I think I have a hardware incompatibility with X in general.

Pictview works fine in DOS.  I did not try COmpushow.

I will try again anyway bypassing autoexec.bat and config.sys in case that 
helps.

I think this computer was just switched over form FreeDOS to DOS 7.1 
Chinese (I was told it was, I noticed it was not, and I was told it would 
be right away).

Has Xvesa done this to anyone else (illegal instruction) and xinit also 
rfused to work?


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