> is there a way to stop X running and edit the VGA card, without having to > re-install from scratch -and learn something in the process :-) ? Generally, X can be stopped by pressing [CTRL]-[ALT]-[BACKSPACE] and you may be dumped to a terminal. I don't know if this is what would happen on VirtualPC, though. If you can get to the XFree86Config file, you can change the Driver line to "vesa" and your X server should use a VESA driver. HTH. -Andy _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86