From: Anders Axelsson (etxaax@falcon2.ericsson.se)
Date: 01/12/93


From: etxaax@falcon2.ericsson.se (Anders Axelsson)
Subject: Re: SLS, Laptops, X and Xega
Date: 12 Jan 1993 13:05:04 GMT

nieuwhzn@fys.ruu.nl (Gerrit J. Nieuwenhuizen) writes:

>Can some kind soul point out how to get Xfree86 working properly on
>a laptop.
>The Xega thing seems to have some problems with setting the proper
>font path, the Xmono server (finally, after some fiddling with the
>Xconfig file) gave a root window and twm, but clicking the mouse
>did not do a thing.

> Gerrit J. van Nieuwenhuizen
> Sub Atomic Physics department
> University of Utrecht
> nieuwhzn@ruunfs.fys.ruu.nl

The Xega server doesn't seem to be able to use the compressed pcf fonts that
come with the SLS release. Uncompressing the fonts and updating the
fonts.dir files in /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc and 75dpi directories got it
working for me.

I haven't been able to get it to work in 16 color mode though, xdpyinfo still
only shows that 1 bit plane is used. If someone knows how to get it to
recognize the 4 bits / pixel on my (ancient Trident 8800 ) SVGA card I'd
like to hear about it.

Thanks

 /Anders

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