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Hi,
If I recall right: 
the default BasicLinux X server is
Xvesa which works ok with all VESA 2.0 cards 

Czerno has an old S3(pci?) vga card that is not
compatible to the VESA 2.0 Standard.
So his best option is to install the S3 Xserver that
comes with Slackware 4.0 or the SVGA Xserver.
Also this old vga card probably has only 1MB of memory
so it is limited to low resolutions.

-HHMM


--- baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> On Sun, 22 Jul 2007, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
> wrote:
> 
> > Hi, List, from: Czerno.
> >
> > Did I report that under the BL3 GUI, I live in
> (mostly) black & white
> > ? Desktop background is, saddeningly, black. Is
> this by design, or
> > due to my obligatory video settings in 16 colours
> (EGA-like) ? Is it
> > possible to (re-)define the palette used by apps
> and the desktop
> > itself so colours are applied and, where
> necessary, approximated
> > (guess it's called dithering) ? After all my
> Windows 95 also runs in
> > 4-bit coulour modes, yet it shows a multiplicity
> of colours,
> > manipulating the HW palettes (it's VGA all the
> same, *not* CGA!) &
> > dithering pictures when appropriate, I believe.
> 
> 
> Windows uses a VGA driver for cards with 4-bit
> color.  I doubt that Xvesa 
> was optimized for older video cards.  It is nearly
> unusable for 8-bit 
> color.  Try the linux VGA X server
> (/slakware/x1/xvg16.tgz) instead of 
> Xvesa, with Steven's no-xvesa.tgz.  It will take up
> 2-3MB but if it works 
> you can delete Xvesa to compensate.
> 
> Why don't you change to a video card with 15-bit or
> more color?  8-bit 
> will not work well.
> 
> > For instance, running Lynx in a virtual terminal
> window, it comes out
> > as black text on white, not the colours that it
> gets in a terminal
> 
> You can set it to not use colors.
> 'o' for options, 'Show color OFF' instead of ON.
> Save options to disk.
> Does that help?  At least you won't get white on
> white.
> I see inverted text instead of colored text now.
> 
> Or you can set lynx.lss to show the screen in your
> choice of colors.  I 
> have it set up to work even on a TTL monitor (with
> actual bold for bold).
> Linux mda (monochrome) driver is broken and does not
> show underlines 
> except as bold.
> 
> > console using the same config file. As such Lynx
> is barely usable in
> > the GUI, not that I want colours for the
> prettiness, but the various
> > colours used by Lynx have a significance; some
> characters even seem
> > to come out white on white, which is not too
> conspicuous !
> >
> > I have been making all sort of efforts to set up a
> usable BL3, but if
> > I can't fix more or less this colour problem, not
> to speak of the
> > national keyboard at least in the GUI, it'll
> remain little more than
> > a souvenir from a trip to Unixland. Nice trip
> anyway, and thank you
> 
>
http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO.html
> 
> You will need kbd.tgz (the relevant parts).  This
> comes with a huge 
> collection of console fonts and keymaps.  In
> /usr/lib/kbd I have 1.4MB 
> after deleting a few things.  Pick out the pieces
> you need, to save space. 
> Write up a summary of what worked for the BL
> archives.
> 
> I presume you want one of the ./qwerty keymaps,
> which include bg br cz de 
> dk emacs es fi gr hebrew hu is it jp la (Latin1 -
> French?) lt mk nl (Dutch 
> and Flemish) no pl ru ru1-4, ru_win, se sk tr tralt
> trq ua uk us.
> 
> Unpackage kbd.tgz in /tmp and copy over the selected
> files to 
> /usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty and
> /usr/lib/kbd/consolefonts.
> 
> If console fonts do not map properly there is a way
> to fix that.
> 
> setfont iso05.5f6 -u /usr/lib/kbd/consulesfonts/u -
> worked for me for 
> Cyrillic.
> 
> Something to do with unicode mapping which I do not
> understand but it 
> worked.
> 
> I have not set up other keymappings.  Let us know
> what you learn.
> 
> 
> You are asking lots of intelligent questions.
> Sindi
> 
> > -- 
> > Czerno
> >
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