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On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> Message from Steven
> ===================
> Czerno wrote:
> > I had booted Baslin without a config or autoexec
> > & that from DOS 6.2 as well as DOS 7.10

Have you also tried the 2-floppy BL3.50, which boots with lilo instead of 
loadlin?  I have run into a few computers where Xvesa (the BL3 X server) 
does not work when you boot linux from DOS even without config.sys or 
autoexec.bat, but works after a lilo boot.  I think these were DFI and 
Compaq.

A DOS mouse driver will also interfere.  Unload it first.

> > This is as I said before, an ISA "S3" type 801.
>
> S3 should be no problem.  If we can't get Xvesa to
> work, you can install the dedicated S3 Xserver from
> Slackware 4.0.  That will almost certainly work.
>
> Cheers,
> Steven

Or the svga server, but all my S3 cards worked with Xvesa.  Never had an 
ISA S3 though.

Steven has a nice no-xvesa.tgz package - just add X server of your choice.

Do you have other video cards you could substitute?

Sindi