Request for assistance

[cnoyes at maui.webo.dg.com (Chuck Noyes)]

I assume it's a VGA card and the monitor can handle VGA graphics.
If so, just try specifying a plain-jane VGA video driver
for XF86. That should work. Once that's done, then you try 
experimenting with more *exotic* drivers.
XF86 contains a *probe* that can do some poking around with your
video sub-system. That might be able to shed some light....:)

BTW: There's a brief article, actually it's a letter to the editor, in
this months _Linux Journal_ about this very problem.

Bon Chance.....Chuck

> 
> 
>    I'm trying to install XFree86 on an old AST Advantage! NB notebook
> computer and the only information I have been able to get about its video
> is the following:
>       Chips and Technologies 65535 chipset on the motherboard, with 512k
>       of 70ns ram;
>       CCFT (whatever that means) edgelit mono 9.5" diagonal display, whose
>       maximum resolution is 640x480 in 64 grayscale, 80 columns by 25 lines.
>    Any help you can give will be appreciated. 
>