[Wizard] Re: Netway "Wizards"

[David English]

Just thought I'd clear up what I found with regards X in linux. the X4 
support is very basic (8bpp only, etc.)
The X 3.x  svga server on the cd also only supports 8 bit colour. To get 
this working you can "apt-get install libc5" then grab the X binaries 
from ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/3.3.6/binaries/Linux-ix86-glibc21 
, save all the files to /usr/X11R6/ then extract them all (tar -zxvf 
*.tgz), then run xf86config to build a /etc/XF86Config .

Now, if instead you want to actually use X 3.3.6, grab the svga server 
from the Servers sub directory, and extract that also. With this server 
you *can* get 16bit colour working, but so far I haven't managed to do 
it with the resolution the same as the virtual screen. A 1024x768 
virtual screen will work for 640x480 and 800x600, but not 1024x768 mode 
itself, for example. Looks like it isn't correctly calculating the width 
of the display in bytes when display mode and virtual screen are similar ?

Quite interesting to note that even at 16bit colour, an xterm running 
under 3.3.6 is actually *faster* than the mediagx software emulated text 
mode (the graphics chip does not have a hardware text mode).

All the xfree86.org docs recommend you use X 3.3.1 with this chipset, 
but I don't have a copy of X 3.3.1, or even know where to find it. 
Anyone able to help? (just the 3.3.1 svga binary will do)

I had trouble getting my USB mouse working (spits out errors from kernel 
the moment I plug it in), old serial mouse worked nicely though - 
remember to use /dev/ttyS0, not /dev/tty0 as xf86config suggests for 
anyone doing this.

>| It's currently using the VESA server, because nothing else has yet
>| worked, but I realised I have one more driver to try (X SVGA 3.3.1
>| linked against libc5 is claimed to work... :)
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>If you're talking about the binary on the driver CD, I tried it and it
>didn't work.  Plus it didn't even recognise ImPS/2 wheelie mice either
>so it would have been a bit of a nuisance even if it did work :(  I also
>tried X 3.3.2.3 linked against libc6 from Debian "hamm" and it didn't
>recognise the card at all (wanted to use 320x200 mode, blech!)
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>Cameron.
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