Hello Klaus,
Thanks for the suggestions! I've added them to the collection.
I can understand where your comming from when you wonder if anyone
is using similar software. PowerShift tells me that out of 1500
subscribers, I am the only on that they know of using DOS!
Maybe we should spread the word, eh?
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 07:25:51 -0400 (EDT), Klaus Hameyer wrote:
> Hi everyone -
> Well, the final piece of the puzzle fell into place yesterday.
> SVGAlib returns me to a proper text console after running Arachne.
> The key (for me) lay in forcing use of the VESA driver by
> uncommenting the appropriate line in the /etc/vga/libvga.config file.
> I also uncommented "VesaText" and "VesaSave" and changed the default
> value of "14" to "1" (15 causes Arachne to run mono and does not
> reset the console to text; 0 causes Arachne to fail to run).
> I hope this info helps someone. I'm surprised at how little comment
> there is on the Linux version. Is nobody using it or is nobody
> having any trouble? Just curious.
> By the way, to obtain the effect of a RAM disk, I added a few lines
> to the /usr/bin/arachne startup bash script to delete cookies from
> a previous session and to delete the cached files from a previous
> session. Then I add the cache files for my hotlist sites from
> another directory. That's a technique that could also be used
> in the DOS version if you don't have a RAM disk and don't want to
> wait for the loading of your hotlist sites, since loading from disk
> is usually faster.
> Klaus Hameyer, Burlington, VT (USA)
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