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On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> Message from Sindi
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>
> I had set up a computer with BL2, X (SVGA) and icewm.  Something got
> messed up to the point where startx, xinit, all the shared X libraries
> and the misc fonts.dir were missing.  It looks like anything involved in
> starting X/icewm got trashed/deleted.
>
> I can now load XF86_SVGA but not icewm.  It is failing to load four
> pixmaps (which are there) for icewm with rc=-4 .
>
> I would reinstall icewm but can't find another copy.  The BL2 add-ons site
> is not there.
>
> What files are involved in loading pixmaps?

I found David's reply to one of my old postings suggesting I fix the 
monitor rates in XF86Config and that fixed the pixmap loading problem on 
one computer.  I was testing on an older monitor than the original.
ATI Rage 128 would not work with SVGA server, Nvidia TNT RIVA would.

The other computer loads SVGA X server but crashes out of it badly in BL2 
and BL3 with a Rendition card that worked just fine in another computer 
and works with Win98. Some computers are fussy.  Neither of these do Xvesa 
with himem.sys.

Sindi