Hi hope someone could help!! I installed Linux Mandrake 9.1 on the week with suprising sucess, everything works except my graphics cards!! My cards are both old Cirrus Logic CL-GD5440, I have versions 3.1.1 and 4.x Xfree86 and according to Xfree86 my cards are compatible!! My problem is i can only get 16 colors, and some of the GNOME environment is unreadable, black criss-cross lines in text and option areas, I have a HP Pavillion 15" monitor and a 15" dell monitor I have tried changing the setting on Xfree86 but to know avail. Can anyone give me any ideas on how to progress?? Anything would be great im a complete newbie in Linux!!

Sorry i meant version 3.3.1! Cheers Rich

Your card only has 1Mb or video RAM. Lower the resolution. The equation relating video RAM to resolution and color depth that MUST be true is: (video RAM in Mb) >= [ (horizontal pixels)x(vertical pixels)x(bits per pixel)/(8 bits per byte) ] / (2^20 bytes per Mb) I think your best option is 800x600 at 16 bit color.