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On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Ron wrote:

>      I presume that you have followed the instructions on how to
> install Opera in BL3 ?
>
> http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/baslinux/opera.html

Yes, I followed those directions. I can't say I followed them in the exact 
order they stand in on the page: somehow, both times I tried this, I 
installed glibc and misc-libs, then Opera. That is to say that I 
overlooked the other library upgrade, x-libs, only realizing after I had 
installed Opera and it wouldn't run, complaining about a missing file 
(libXex-something?), that I hadn't yet installed the x-libs package. It 
was after installing that, then trying to run Opera that I got the 
xquerycolors error message and Opera's attempt to start in black and white 
(which ends up being black on black on this monitor). I doubt doing the 
installation in a slightly differing order could cause the problems I'm 
seeing: don't you?

I did try the Neomagic xserver Sindi pointed me to. It does give a much 
nicer display than the xsvga xserver. But it does not solve the 
xquerycolors error message and the black on black window Opera attempts to 
start in. I'm coming to the conclusion that Opera cannot be expected to 
run on any alternate xserver under BL 3.5. Not sure what I'll do about 
this: I really do need a capable graphical browser like Opera on this 
machine.

Any further suggestions? I like the way BL 3.5 runs on this machine. But 
for this important browser issue, it does seem like the right OS for this 
hardware.

James