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Message from Sindi

> > On Sun, 30 Mar 2008, Giuseppe wrote:
> >
> > > Elinks connects with the sites I enter but the screen is empty. I see it
> > > connects: it shows the speed and progress of connection. It seems to be
> > > faster than Lynx and Links2 but it shows nothing. No error message and no
> > > complains.

James wrote:
> > Same results here. Doesn't matter whether the site is remote (e.g.,
> > google) or local (e.g., hotlist.html). Like it's missing fonts, or fonts
> > are transparent or something. Same in console as in terminal. Light on
> > dark or dark on light terminal makes no difference--still blank pages.
> > Anyway, nice try. I can see that even tabs work.

Sindi wrote:
> Odd.  I only tested it while chrooted from BL2 to BL3.

Sindi writes:
I have the same invisibility problem when using elinks directly booted to 
BL3.  Very odd.  Maybe compiling it against libc5 would help?
Maybe using strace would find the problem?

> Using zgv on a 200K image under elinks (at a website) appears to crash it
> (I get a black screen after the image downloads).  Still buggy.
> Links1 and 2 don't do this (with 512MB RAM).

When I rebooted I got many pages about turning off free blocks or the 
like.  Something bad happened.  Can't check it in BL3.

There is link numbering available.

> In Setup Terminal Options 'Transparency' is selected by default - would it
> help to turn it off if you get invisible pages?  Or turn off Color?

It did not help.

Play with this in BL2 only.

Sindi