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First, after playing with my 701 active matrix side by side with a monitor, I can state with a fair amount of certainty that the TFT is only capable of displaying 32k colors (5 bits per primary). The TFT shows obvious color gradient contour lines on finely shaded pictures. These lines match an external monitor in 32k color mode. The monitor produces finer contours in 64k and 16M color modes, but the TFT's display remains the same. So most of the time, running in 15bpp (32k color) mode should be sufficient. In fact, 15bpp can often be better than 24bpp since many apps will dither in the former mode but not the latter. Ok. I went and grabbed the alpha XFree86 CT65545 driver: ftp://ftp.biol.tsukuba.ac.jp/pub/X/XFree86/alpha/CT65545plus/ This is truly an alpha because it contains no documentation whatsoever. All it has is a sample XF86Config file for the Toshiba 610 (also CT65545). I'm new to all this business about dot clocks and wasn't able to get it to work. Has anyone else tried this? (I did succeed in scrambling my video. 95% of the time, I was able to recover by using Fn-F1 to enter the BIOS setup. Apparently this resets the video to a non-corrupt state.) I also tried the demo version of the X-inside commercial ($99) server: http://www.xinside.com This worked a little better. It came up in 640x480x8bit mode just fine. It was pretty obvious that this driver was faster than the generic XFree driver, as well it should be since it's supposed to use the accelerated features of the CT65545. But the 15bpp and 16bpp modes were disabled. The documentation said something about hi-color modes being RAMDAC-dependent, and that I should configure the server manually once I figure out the clocks and RAMDAC. So I got stuck again. I tried a DOS video probing utility and it reported the RAMDAC as "internal". No help there. I'd really like to get X running in 15bpp or 16bpp mode. If someone more familiar with this business of clocks can give me a hand, I'd be willing to write up the results and put it on my web site. __________________________________________________________________________ John H. Kim The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one jokim@mit.edu that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I have jokim@tuna.mit.edu found it!) but "That's funny ..." -- Isaac Asimov