Request for assistance

[Susan G. Kleinmann]

Hi Marc --

You said:
>   I have the same problem with a video chip built into the motherboard 
> (Dell PC); it's an S3 chip, but I can't get any more information from the 
> BIOS and I can't see it inside the PC (the documantation is not model 
> specific.) Is there any chance a bad specification can damage the board? 
> 

You might want to check DejaNews (http://www.dejanews.com/forms/dnq.html)
to see what other people have to say about putting X on a machine like yours.
For example, you could search for 
      dell & linux & S3
although I suspect that would give you too many hits.  More specific would
be 
      (dell ^1 whatever_your_model_number_is) & linux & S3
The notation "^1" (which is not control-1, but is really shift-6 followed by 1)
says to find dell within one word of whatever_your_model_number_is.

Good luck,
Susan Kleinmann