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[Lee Forrest <lforrestster AT gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 04:11:33PM +1300, 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
> Lee Forrest wrote:
> 
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> It looks like Xvesa is completely unaware of agpgart
> (which I suppose is not that surprising).  Therefore,
> if you are going to use Xvesa for X, you will be
> limited to the modes it can produce.  It appears
> that 640x400x16 is the best it will do for you
> unless Sindi can find a way for you to up the video
> RAM to 1mb.
> 
> > to fix the xterm with 640X200X16 
> 
> I assume you mean 640x400x16? 

Yes.

> I don't think Xvesa
> will do 640x200x16 for you.  Anyway 640x400x16 is 
> better.
> 
> > (by adding a +2 to the size).  Should I put it
> > there?  I'm at 640X480X16 now.
> 
> As you can see above, Xvesa is not able to do 640x480x16 
> for you.  If you put that in Xconfig it will either: 
> (1) give you the best 640x480 it has 
> or
> (2) crash  
> 
> Xvesa thinks it can give you 640x480x8, but unfortunately 
> a PseudoColor routine was not written for Xvesa (they never
> got a round tuit).  That leaves Xvesa with a pretty big hole
> between 4-bit color (16 colors) and 15-bit (32768 colors).
> 
> So, even if you put 640x480x16 in Xconfig, Xvesa is probably 
> only going to give you 640x480x4.  If this in not the case 
> (and Xvesa is actually giving you more than 16 colors at 
> 640x480) then Xvesa is even more confusing than I thought.
> 
> Please note (just to avoid any confusion), Xvesa should be
> giving you 65536 colors at 640x400x16.  

I just tried 640x400x16 again, and it doesn't work at _all_. With
three xterms in xinitrc, I get one (apparently) with a thick
white border all the way around, no title bar, and commandline
cursor that's a thin outline I can barely see, and the Meta key
is rendered useless. Can't switch between xterms. I created a
small one and it won't switch between that and the first one
either.

Do Alt-Tab twice, and you get a screen filled with command names,
because you have actually just hit Tab twice.

Here's what happens when I do 320x200x16:

The xterm and font get really big. The title bar gets about twice as wide.
All the characters are so large you can see the dots that make them up.

I can make it fit the screen by changing the geometry, but it isn't
usable with that huge font.

The font is set in ~/.Xdefaults at: rxvt*font: 6X9

I'd really like 16 bit, so if there is anyway to make this work, it
would be great.

Lee

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