sculpsit daenzer: > I notice that X tries to set a 32 bit mode while the console is apparently 8 > bit (right?) - do you have DefaultDepth 32 in your XF86Config or something? i had a default of 24. changing this to 8 has worked, whoo hoo :-) thanks for the help. i had assumed it would be 24bit colour as that was what was being reported under os9 (pay attention 007). -- dog