Hi Malcolm,

If you want to use a graphic board which is not supported by XFree86, it is 
possible to configure a Vesa Framebuffer. Then XFree86 uses the Framebuffer 
instead of the graphic board driver. To activate the framebuffer perhaps you 
have to recompile the kernel. By using "make menuconfig" in /usr/src/linux you 
find the point "console drivers", where you have to enable the Framebuffer 
support. Then finish compiling the kernel and add it to your bootmanager. When 
you can see the penguin on boot process the activating of framebuffer was 
successful. Now you can use XF86_FBDev to connect the X-Windows System to the 
Framebuffer. You can read more about the Framebuffer at the official 
framebuffer side (sorry I don't know the URL currently but you will find it by 
searching via www.google.com)

I hope it could help

With kind regards

sascha

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