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Dave Yeo:
Attached is my xfEnvSetup.cmd, started as "xfEnvSetup f" here as X11 is installed in f:\usr\X11R6. And the XF86Config I'm currently using. XF86Config here goes in f:\usr\X11R6\X11.

Sean Casey:

--- Quote from: Dave Yeo on March 14, 2019, 04:33:21 pm ---Latest is at ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/xfree86/4.5.0/. The vesa driver is called just that.

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I'm not familiar with a "vesa" specific driver.  Does Panorama work w. XFree as it is based on the GRADD driver which I believe is also VESA compliant.  I found I was limited to 1280x1024 using the GRADD driver, but I have been very happy using the Panorama driver which supports 1900x. 

Dave Yeo:

--- Quote from: Sean Casey on March 14, 2019, 06:08:36 pm ---
--- Quote from: Dave Yeo on March 14, 2019, 04:33:21 pm ---Latest is at ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/xfree86/4.5.0/. The vesa driver is called just that.

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I'm not familiar with a "vesa" specific driver.  Does Panorama work w. XFree as it is based on the GRADD driver which I believe is also VESA compliant.  I found I was limited to 1280x1024 using the GRADD driver, but I have been very happy using the Panorama driver which supports 1900x.

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Xfree/2 uses its own video driver infrastructure, giving you another desktop independent of usual OS/2 desktop. It comes with various video drivers but generally they're too old for modern systems, so just like we have to use Panorama now, on Xfree/2, we use the VESA driver.
I'm not sure what resolution XFree is running at here but it looks fine, as in not stretched, on this 1680x1050 monitor.
I should play around more.

Dave Yeo:
Looking, here it seems to be running at 1280x1024. Tried forcing it higher but got no screens found error. In theory by feeding it the right settings, should be able to get full resolution. It's an old port now.

Sean Casey:

--- Quote from: Dave Yeo on March 14, 2019, 06:25:03 pm ---Xfree/2 uses its own video driver infrastructure, giving you another desktop independent of usual OS/2 desktop.

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Thanks for the education as I was dreaming about keeping the PM windows manager and running X windows applications either in a multi-window or seamless mode on the PM desktop.  I'll just stick to Linux when I need to work with GIMP or XSane.  There's nothing better than PM and its native applications - the reason I decided to move back to OS/2 after taking a 25 year hiatus.

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