I have a small i486 with a black and white screen. For obvious reasons I want to use the mono server in my xconfiguration, but I cannot seem to get it to work. The machine is running RH6.0 (thanks to who sent me the disc -Craig I think, but not sure), during install it always loads the SVGA server, due to the card definition (Cirrus Logic GD5422). However editing the X11 config file to remove all the screens that use the SVGA and VGA16 server result in the error - failure to connect to X server. I have Xmono installed. The reason I need the mono server is that under the lynx browser I cant see any of the links as the display is using a bpp depth of 8.
any ideas?
by the way I managed to get the LXF slackware 8.1 disc to install on my 486 with 16MB ram - now that is a distro!
Glen
Glen Tyler glen.tyler@tesco.net wrote:
The reason I need the mono server is that under the lynx browser I cant see any of the links as the display is using a bpp depth of 8.
any ideas?
Does startx -- -bpp 1 or equivalent work for you? You might need to edit X configs to make it so and it's not even a greyscale monitor. Also, if it's just lynx, unsetting COLORTERM or putting show_color=never in .lynxrc or /etc/lynxrc might help.
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