Thanks for the information and the response!
I have tried the crtl-alt-(keypad -) and ctrl-alt-(keypad
+) and neither do anything.
I went into the config file you asked about - it has 3 screen "sections" in the screen section:
colour svga
16-color vga
mono
colour-svga:
driver "svga"
device "trident microsystems|cyberblade/i7d
monitor customconfiguration
colordepth 8
sub:
depth 8
modes 640x640
viewport 0 0
16-color vga:
driver vga16
device generic vga
monitor customconfiguration
sub:
modes 640x640 000x600
viewport 0 0
mono:
driver vga2
device generic vga
monitor customconfiguration
sub:
modes 640x640 000x600
viewport 0 0
when i enter xinit it dumps quiet a bit into stderr - which I redirected into a file and went through.
(xinit 2> x)
I'm running version 3.3.6 of XFree86
(do i need an updated version - this one is dated
january 8 2000) and my notebook came out about that
time - perhaps a bit after?(not too sure when it was
started in production...)
At the end of the error-output:
(---) SVGA: PCI : Triden CyberBalde/i7/DSTN.....
(---) SVGA: chipset: generic
(---) svga: videoram: 64k
(---) svga: clocks: 25.10
(***) svga: using 8 bpp, depth 8, color weight 666
(---) svga: using builtin driver modes
(---) svga: builtin mode: 320x320
(---) svga: virtual resolution set to 320x204
(---) svga: speedup code selection modified because virtulX != 1024