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Tim N. van der Leeuw wrote:

> I have a laptop with NeoMagic chipset as well, and I'm pretty much stuck
> with it. X hardly works on it; I can get something resembling 800x600 in
> 4bit colour but about 50-70 pixels to the right fall off the screen.
>
> NeoMagic is unsupported by XFree86, indeed.
>
> However, Quake (under DOS) does run well on this very same laptop. Quake
> can run in full 800x600, without shifting the display to the left or
> downwards, or any other problems.
> So if Quake can run on this chipset (seeing it as any ordinary SVGA
> compatible chipset) run so well, in 256 or more colours, why can't
> XFree86? Forget about the acceleration, I just want the bloody thing to
> RUN properly in 256 or more colours on 800x600! I know it should be
> possible with just some generic SVGA driver, Quake does it!
>
> How do I configure XFree86 for this?
>
> When I try to run the SVGA X Server it always reverts back to 320x200
> (ARGH! SCREAM! RUN!) "generic vga" driver while it should be able to run
> some sort of "generic svga" driver! :-(
>
> --TNL

I had a similar problem with my card and put the no_bltblck option in from
memory in the configuration file.  Sounds Like your best bet is to reinstall
and set x without accelaration even if it means editing the xf config file
by handmake a backup copy of the config and run xf86config not setup
cant remember the capitalisation.  This will ask you questions in a text
mode without using a gui