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agpgart.o inserts on a board with i180 onboard video, says the chip now 
has 4MB accessible video ram, but Xvesa still displays only up to 1024 
(8-bit) or 800 (16-bit), which is not bad.  svgalib still displays only 
320 and 640, which is more of a problem for our 1.3MP camera.  The SVGA X 
server displays at 320x200.

David Moberg's tuxfan link to the i810 binary is still not working.

Puppy linux has something dated October 31 2007 about the latest Xvesa 
that might work with i810 and has been considerably improved and has 
xinerama.  They have xvesa-4.3.0v2-xkbd on the live CD.  What version does 
BL3 use?  It does work with i810 but not any better with agpgart.o.

Puppy brags of its 2-3MB kdrive server, smaller than the xorg 35MB.

Half our 'newer' computers have onboard i810 - DELL, HP, IBM, DFI and only 
the DFI has an AGP slot.  Of our VESA 2.0 (framebuffer) PCI video cards, 
Rendition messes up everything, ATI Win98 driver could not be found, Tseng 
ET6000 won't work right with svgalib.  The Emachine with i180 has only two 
PCI slots (and some crummy onboard sound too) and some idiotic short modem 
slot.

Since the i180 does not support framebuffer anyway, we may put in S3 PCI 
cards in the others, which do 1600 resolution and work well with Xvesa, 
XSVGA S3 server and svgalib (and Win98 with no driver download).  SDD 
driver lets S3 do framebuffer but it messes up something else (Xvesa?). 
I will try with S3 server instead.

Sindi

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SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org