I just tried Arachne out on my newly installed Linux (Slackware 7.0.0). First of all I suggest that the upcomming beta release does one of the following: a. have a setup program that writes a /.svgalib (IIRC that's the name) in the home directory (works for all users - will require all users to set this up) b. have a setup program that writes /etc/vga/libvga.config (root access required) c. tells people they should edit /etc/vga/libvga.config (leaving it to the root user) (Thankfully I've played with SVGAlib myself a little so I knew about this). Arachne worked nice (I didn't try it out for long - I was going to download ssh (wasn't included in SlackWare) but it was way to big, however after exiting Arachne (and using VESA - the ATI drivers are very bad) I never got any text back (the same also happens if I switch to another console while running Arachne). what actually happens is that the graphics card never sends anything to the monitor. Has this happened to anyone else? I think you've only tried it with autodetect Michael and S3 (IIRC that's the type of card you've got) is a very good driver... (I kind of regretted buying an ATI card - my older S3 card was more supported and had an additional feature (QuickTime fullscreen mode). The interesting thing is that no of the other drivers (that make Arachne red/brown and in some other resolution) "shuts down" the graphics card, so I don't know if the problem is my card, SVGAlib or Arachne. On the download page the user is adviced to use Midnight Commander on the tar.gz - I tried to but I couldn't really figure out how to uncompress it. "tar -zxvf filename" worked fine (just in case someone else can't get Midnight Commander to uncompress it). As a side note does anyone know where I change the MTU settings in Linux? Everything seemed to be going very slowly (LAN connection to a 33k6 modem).
