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On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> Now, having gotten an alternate xserver installed and configured, and
> having installed Opera, I have a problem getting Opera to run. When I
> issue the command Opera in a terminal, I get the message: "call to
> xquerycolors failed: falling back to black/white display." In theory I
> could then use Opera in black and white, but the window that pops up is
> actually all black.

There were patches for neomagic in Xfree86 3.3.5 X_SVGA and later.

See:

https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/baslinux/2006-May/010500.html and 
related postings:

In BL3 I had a similar problem using X_SVGA with Trident and S3 cards, or 
X_S3 with S3, but BL2 worked with the X S3 server (but not Xvesa with S3). 
"Opera displays black on black with the X_SVGA server in BL3".

Maybe the later XFree86 3.3.6 fixed the VESA part of X_SVGA so it would 
work better with these and also the neomagic chip.

I found a broken link to a libc5 version of Xfree86 3.3.5.

There is a neomagic X server that  might work better than the SVGA one

http://linux.maruhn.com/cat/X11/XFree86.html (Linux software directory)

XBF-neomagic-libc5   Binary-only X server for Neomagic on libc5 systems
(also available for glibc, and i740 for both libs).

Click the above link to reach a page with a link to a README.neomagic at 
Redhat on how to install the server and another link to the actual tgz 
file (1999 840K).  You may need to edit XF86Config.

ftp://ftp.forth.org/pub/Linux/Libretto/XBF-neomagic-libc5-1.1.0-1.i386.tgz
ftp://ftp.braz.ru/pub/unix/x11/neomagic/XBF-neomagic-libc5-1.1.0-1.i386.tgz
(I downloaded from this first site, did not check the second).

I still cannot find X binary for i810 even glibc.  The link in the 
archives was broken.

> I googled this error and noted that another BL user had the same problem
> and that he also had installed an alternate xserver. Seems like either
> something is missing or else Opera is attempting to use some part of Xvesa
> that doesn't work on this laptop. Any ideas?

I presume you mean X_SVGA not Xvesa.

> James

Sindi