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Follow-up on an older post.
Just could not find when exactly previous posting to BasLinux posting
to Archives was submitted.

Anyhow, it was originally posted to find an XF86Config for an S3
Savage/IX video chipset for BL3.
1st suggestion was to have a look at this config file for the svga server:
http://www.spack.org/geek/thinkpad-t20-xf86config.txt
2nd suggestions were
"Framebuffer might work.  Sindi knows how to set this up.
As a last resort, you could try the vga16 server."

Very long 3rd suggestion started with
--- begin quote ---
then you can load Xfbdev for libc5
from David Moberg (http://keesan.freeshell.org/xfbdev.gz)
or if that segfaults, use the one from Xorg which is at
http://keesan.freeshell.org/Xfbdev-glibc21.gz
(gunzip it into /usr/X11R6/bin) - 397K download.  You will
also need glibc2 (try operalib.tgz at my site) for this later
version.

You need (once) to make a framebuffer device:

mknod /dev/fb0 c 29 0

Install my http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl/bl3fbpkg.tgz
(which modifies startx and adds a cursor font and
also includes xfbdev for libc5) or for BL2
use Steven's no-xvesa.tgz and Xfbdev and start x
with xinit Xfbdev (or make an alias in .profile).
--- end quote --

Tried all the suggestions this current iteration and now keep getting a
xinit: can't load library 'libX11.so.6' error

Is there a better way to untangle the spaghetti-code
XF86Config/Xserver mess I got into through following the 3rd set of
directions for setting up X11 other than re-installing BL3-50 from
scratch??
Just could not find when exactly previous posting to BasLinux posting
to Archives was submitted.
Again, just could not find when exactly this previous posting was
originally submitted to the BasLinux  Archives.

Thanks in advance.