[Newbie]Compaq Deskpro 2000 5166MMX w/integrated S3 Trio64V4

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Hi,
Problem with the vesa is that it is not accelerated. I have an old laptop with an S3
Inc.|86cM65 [Aurora64V+] and 2MB I can run it with V4 and VESA, but V3 and SVGA (accelerated) runs
much faster so I downgraded. Actually KDE 2.2.1, gnome etc... run quite well on V3
Cheers
Lionel 

<snip>
> I managed to get it going through vesa fb dev in the kernel it's a little 
> sloppy.
> 
> But it's ok for now. Just recompile the kernel with fbdev with vesa supp 
> vga=-3 (Option for lilo) and enter 313 after showing modes, and you've got 
> (with a little overhead) 800*600 16 bits. 
</snip> 


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