> it's the 11.3 active matrix model. i've found other people's configs > online, but none of them seem to be helpful at all. the best i've gotten > is 640x480 with messed up colors and flickering that makes it impossible > to read, much less look at.
It would be useful, if you give us informations of the graphic-card. I got a Thinkpad 310D with a chips&tech 655xxx graphic card. X works quite fine for me > however, people apear to have gotten 800x600 8bit just fine. do i NEED > to use xfree 3.2 instead of 3.3.6 out of potato? Yes I have 800x600 8bpp. I had to fiddle round with the XF86Config file to get that. something with hsync i think. mihi -- while !asleep {sheep ++}; PGP/GPG key @ http://unet.univie.ac.at/~a9900470/mihi.asc