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sindi keesan wrote:
>
> > ----------------
> > Xvesa -listmodes
> > ----------------
> 
> I have a Compaq 486 laptop that also only works in 
> 16 colors with Xvesa but is fine with the svga server.

Have we seen Lee's listmodes yet?  Until we do, 
I'm not ready to give up on Xvesa.
 
> Would it be enough to replace JUST libX11.so with 
> something from a later Xfree (4.6.0 or 4.0.1) or 
> must we replace all the X libraries to match?

ldd the Xserver to see what it needs.

> How much larger would 4.0.1 be (for libc5) than 
> 3.3.3 (SW4.0), just for the few basic X libraries 
> used by BL3 

Much bigger.

Cheers,
Steven