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On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> Message from Steven
> ===================
> James wrote:
> > Is there any set of directions anywhere for setting
> > up BL on a system whose video hardware is incompatible
> > with Xvesa?
>
> http://www.basiclinux.com.ru/xvesa.html

I also have a laptop with neomagic chip (they are common).

If you type
XF86_SVGA -showconfig
it lists all the supported chips, which for BL2 includes NM2160.

In BL2 the list is a full page 5-7 items per line.  Oddly enough, it says 
Operating System:  Linux 2.2.13 i686 [ELF] tho Slackware 7.1 used 2.2.16.

Slackware 7.1 I think has Xfree86 3.3.6,
and Slackware 4.0 Xfree86 3.3.3.1.

http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.6/RELNOTES8.html#8 under "what's new in 3.3.3" 
lists "Support for NeoMagic notebook chipsets" (also vesafb ATI Rage Pro 
and IIC, Riva TNT, Matrox G100, Rendition).

Steven's no-xvesa.tgz works very well, to 800x600.  You can add more 
modelines for higher resolution in XF86Config (I posted an example).

Sindi