Andrei & Richard, ap> That's a shot in the dark, but try booting with vga=788 That also fails on the IBM NetVist machine. But the machine at home gives sensible output from "hwinfo --framebuffer". I'll try qemu on it next weekend. Thanks for the help, ... Peter E. -- http://carnot.yi.org/ = http://carnot.pathology.ubc.ca/ Desktops.OpenDoc http://members.shaw.ca/peasthope/