(sadly, i can't respond directly to emmanuel's reply, as i'm at a client site and, while i can fetchmail, i can't respond except through web-based email. so the headers might be a bit weird but i'm trying to keep the subject line consistent. sigh.) emmanual asks if i tried 16bpp to try to crank up the resolution. i did, and it made no difference. in desperation, i just tried a pathetic 8 bpp, and it worked! so i have 1024x768 with 256 colors. yeesh. certainly, this intel 865G card should handle more than that. here's the relevant snippet from /var/log/messages: Dec 16 06:41:57 localhost kernel: Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann Dec 16 06:41:57 localhost kernel: agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 438M Dec 16 06:41:57 localhost kernel: agpgart: Detected an Intel(R) 865G Chipset. Dec 16 06:41:57 localhost kernel: agpgart: Detected 892K stolen memory. Dec 16 06:41:57 localhost kernel: agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xe8000000 like i said, i have no experience with intel video cards. is there a configuration setting to get it to handle a higher bpp at this resolution? thanks. rday
