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On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> In Response To <Pine.NEB.4.62.0703112351120.10899 AT sdf.lonestar.org>:
> > On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
>
> [delete]
>
> It is possible that the problems I had on Debian with Zgv/Svgalib _were_
> because of the i810 chip. It would crash, sometimes, when I exited Zgv and 
> that crash
> was video-monitor related. A lot of other people had the same problem,
> though, and I doubt that they all used a chipset from that family.

Would you please try it with the latest svgalib that I just compiled and 
posted specifically for the i810, 260K libvga.so.1.9.25 (and you will need 
libvga.gl if you use zgv - from the larger .tgz).  I want to know whether 
to try setting up the onboard i810.  If it does not work with svgalib I 
won't bother because I want a chip that works with that as well as X, 
preferably Xvesa so I can simply copy linux between drives but we don't 
have enough free slots in one board.

> Of course, with any box that came with one of those chipsets, X
> will run just fine and you wouldn't _need_ Svgalib.
>
> About the Xi810 server. Like Xvesa and all of the other kdrive servers,
> it is configured via commandline options and arguments and ignores
> Xorg or XFree86 config files.
>
> I'm using this startx on my glibc2 BL3:
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> xinit -- /usr/X11R6/bin/Xi810 -screen  800x600x32  -3button -ac bc  -terminate

Similar to identical to Xvesa.  That is nice.

> /quote
>
> The ~/.xinitrc and ~/.Xdefaults are similar to those for Xvesa/sWM, too.
>
> Lee
Sindi