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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT gmail.com>]

sindi keesan wrote:
> Since the SW71 S3 server works in BL2 with Opera, I tried it in BL3 and it
> has the identical problem to the BL3 (SW40) S3 and SVGA servers - the
> opening screen of Opera and many others are black on black.  So the
> problem is somewhere else in BL3.

Are the kernels the same in BL3 and BL2? What about rgb.txt?

> I will set up a larger BL3.40 partition somewhere and try to learn to
> compile X servers on it unless someone else wants to do that.

I recommend that you get the source code from Slackware (/source/x/
directory) if you haven't already downloaded it. Source code from
Slackware 3.x or 4.0 is much more likely to work on libc5 than
something from the XFree86 site. XFree86 has its own build system -
you may find its documentation helpful:

http://xfree86.org/3.3.6/BUILD1.html#3

(start reading at section 1.2 after you've downloaded and unpacked the source)

Try building with the default configuration; then, if the build fails,
look at the compiling error log, which should give a hint at which
configuration setting needs to be changed to successfully build
XFree86.

> unless someone else wants to do that.

XFree86 is not fun to compile. It has several dependencies, (although
they should be easy to get from SW40) its own unique build system, and
it is one gigantic package which takes a long time to build unless you
have a modern PC.

David