No luck yet, but I'm still trying :-)Īctually, that's a lie. It struck me as a nice idea to be able to play DVDs without having the bottleneck of a fairly poor graphics card. There are quirks - the server doesn't seem to recognise ctrl, alt or even shift being pressed, and I can't have a large virtual desktop to scroll around in - but on the whole it's not too bad. Some are nicer than others about how they handle it, though - eg, wrapping menus when they become too large. Time to try some apps :-)Įnlightment, KDE, RealPlayer 8, Netscape Navigator (among others) all seemed fairly happy running at such a low resolution. My X server was now running at 200x120.Īlmost useable. Fiddling with its config file somehwat I managed to get 100圆0 running, which with an 8x8 font gives me 800x480, the limit of this laptop's LCD. Poking around, I discovered SVGATextMode, which will tweak VGA text modes using modelines similar to XF86Config's. Booting linux with 'vga=ask' wasn't very productive - it only seemed to report standard VGA text modes (eg, 80x43, 80x50). Each character on-screen represents a 2x2 pixel block, so my X server was running at 160x50. It'll quite happily render X using aalib. XGGI is a patched XFree 3 server, which as you can guess, uses GGI for its display. It provides a standard interface, and will render (among others) as X, svgalib or (conveniently enough) aalib. Then I found GGI, which acts as an abstraction layer. First of all, I compiled aalib, which seemed a good start.
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