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On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Sindi wrote:

Thanks for doing this searching on my behalf, Sindi. I've actually begun 
looking at installing other linuces on this laptop now, but may yet 
reconsider.

> 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).

Looks interesting. But how sure are we that this would resolve the problem 
I was seeing? I was hoping Steven might pipe in to opine whether bits of 
Xvesa left on the system might be somehow interfering with Opera and its 
color requirements. Maybe the xserver you found would resolve the problem 
but, then again, it might not.

> I presume you mean X_SVGA not Xvesa.

Actually I meant Xvesa. I was assuming that the system might be relying on 
some component of the old video system that doesn't work on this laptop. 
But I'm doing some rather uninformed guessing; was hoping someone better 
informed might have better guesses. Or might even actually know.

James