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On Sat, 21 Aug 2010, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> > > > Xvesa works perfectly in Puppy Linux (X11R7, 2.6 kernel)
> > > > Tested for over 30 minutes.
> > > >
> > > > Xvesa uclibc and glibc23, Xfbdev glibc, X SVGA with correct XF86Config
> > > > all freeze up in BL2. Sometimes immediately. DSL Xvesa also freezes 
> > > > eventually.  Both kernel 2.4.31.  glibc 2.3
> > > > Twice VT1 has also frozen up when I tried to backspace.
> > >
> > > Attempting to use svgalib also crashes it (in addition to producing a 
> > > badly scrambled screen).  svgalib uses vesa for the trident.
>
>
> > I still don't know why ALSA cannot handle ES1869 and Puppy and DSL cannot 
> > detect the two PS/2-type onboard mice.  BL2 had no such problems.


Slax, kernel 2.6.27, glib2.7, KDE.  Uses 247/256MB on boot.  'VESA'
option of Xorg saves about 50MB.

Mice do not work.  No mouse setup, and manually symlinking mouse 
/dev/ttyS0 and restarting X did not help.  Comes linked to
/mice/input as in Puppy.  Don't understand that.  Inserts psmouse module 
automatically.

Control Panel lets you choose OSS or ALSA but no OSS modules provided
(in 200MB of CD).  alsaconf did not actually load any modules.

PCMCIA modules loaded, but not my network module.  Could not figure
out how to get pcmcia card working, with no /etc/pcmcia/start.

Puppy and Slax, with recent libraries and kernel and X, do not freeze up 
in X, BL and sometimes DSL do. I might try copying over glibc, kernel, 
modules, and X stuff to a copy of BL from Slax or Puppy.  Slackware does 
not appear to provide modules for its kernels, just config files.
Anything else to update?

Apart from X freezing, older linuxes work better here.

Sindi