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> > 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.
Lee
> 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.

Another way to check if your chip is now supported by svgalib 1.4.3 is to 
download and copy to two floppy disks blueflops, which uses svgalib 1.4.3 
and links2.1pre19 (graphical with javascript and SSL in 492K but you need 
libvga and libpng and libz and libjpeg as well).  Everything is 
dynamically compiled against uclibc including busybox 1.1.10.  They also 
have a 46K dbclient.

To work around a problem with svgalib they put Vesatext line in 
libvga.config and if text mode is messed up on exit type vesa.

This would save the risk of crashing your regular linux.

Sindi