>>>>> "Steve" == Steve Henry <smhenry@vt.edu> writes:
>> From: Taka.Torimoto@oit.gatech.edu
>> Soemtimes, when I get the "first" menu/requestor, (With options
>> of System or Utils) the mouse just doesn't move, and at other
>> times, I can move the mouse but can't click on anything.. well,
>> there's no response...
Steve> I quite frequently get the problem of entering executor and
Steve> I can move the mouse but I cannot select anything on the
Steve> file system menu (I do get through the title and license
Steve> screens). I noticed it happens more frequently when I am
Steve> loading executor after I had already ran it and exited.
1.99h seems to have serious intermittent mouse button problems. It
just seems to stop working. I'm looking into it.
>> But the one or two times that Executor DID work, the screen
>> easily got garbled with totally messed up garbage... the mouse
>> pointer would leave trails for one thing. This is from running
>> the demos and such that come with the demo. As I move the
>> pointer around, it clears the screen up SOME but not not all...
Steve> I had this same problem on a PS/2 with XGA2 graphics.
This may be a problem with non-VESA boards. Do these boards have
VESA-compatible drivers? What happens on these machines if you say
"-bpp 8" explicitly?
-Mat
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I am new to this list, so I apologise if this thread is covered.
I'm running the xinside Xserver with the 1.99c beta version of
executor for Linux. I cannot get executor to work under 16 or 24 bit
colour in 1024x768 or 800x600. I get a xx bpp error.
for 8 bit color, I get a funky color map switch and then executor seg
faults.
Has anyone gotten executor to work under linux? I am running
1.1.78. Are there special compile options required? Any help would be