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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>I now have Blackbox up and running OK on
my old machine, i have installed a different pci card, i then ran sax2 and all
went well. I have resolved a few problems but </FONT><FONT
face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>i still have 2 problems i'm struggling
with.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>Problem 1:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>When the system boots up i get the
following display</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>You have passed an undefined mode
number.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>Press <RETURN> to see video modes
available, <SPACE> to continue or wait 30 seconds</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>If i wait then the machine boots up OK,
if i Press <RETURN> then i'm given a series of options:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>video adapter Vesa Vga</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>Mode: ColsXRows</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>0f00 80X25
</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>13 other options are displayed thro to
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>0133
132X44</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>Selecting any of the options appears
to select the size of the Font used through the booting process, the
greater the number of columns and rows the smaller the text and therefore far
more rows of text is displayed in a screen full. I have to go through this
stage every time i boot up. How can i stop this?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>Problem 2</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>If i run emacs in text mode everything
works just fine, if i run emacs via X (Blackbox) then i get a white screen that
is not inside a window and the text spills out beyond the size of the screen
sometimes (usually an empty screen even when i know it contains
text). If i run xemacs i get the same problem, I can punch
away at the keyboard and nothing displays on the screen, however when save it,
it saves, when i close emacs it closes. When i reopen the file in text
mode all that i typed in has been saved to file! </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>Midnight commander opens in a window
YESSSSSSSSS! I like MC and everything works just fine too.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>Thoughts and ideas welcome.
Blackbox fits nicely on the screen and xterm works just fine.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>How do i find out which config file is
being read when X starts? Sorry Paul you did so much at the last
meeting for which i'm grateful but it was far too much for me to remember a lot
of it.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>