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[Lee Forrest <lforrestster AT gmail.com>]

On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 10:45:51AM +1300, 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
> Lee Forrest wrote:
> >
> > I'm still trying to get my plastic rodent to work, and 
> > thought it would be wise to compare my debian xconfig 
> > and my BL Xconfig 
> 
> There is no connection between them.  BL3 uses Xvesa
> with a dummy Xconfig.  Debian (I assume) uses a proper 
> Xserver, with a real /etc/XF86Config.
> 
> As I suggested before, installing a proper Xserver will
> probably be beneficial.  Xvesa is a rough-and-ready cludge 
> designed to work (mostly) on a variety of hardware.  It 
> may be the smallest, most universal way to run X, but it 
> is often not the best way.

Okay. But I'd rather spend my time learning how to display and
manipulate images without X, actually. X seems to be a trap for
tiny linux users. First it's 6M for a 'real' xserver, then one
library after another for every X application.

On my debian OS, booting up my _minimal_ X more than triples my
memory footprint (free).

Lee