User Feedback :: Live CD poor display on old hp desktop

Thanks for those ideas and hints.
In reading elsewhere (the Xfree86 site and particularly Thomas Winischhofer's site on SIS Xorg and Linux), I think the old HP's SIS chipset is my major problem and the old computer requires the "sis" driver and only the "sis".
Apparently this chipset did not support vesa which explains why that option did nothing. I'll check the Xvesa -lstmodes query nonetheless.
I'll also look into the BIOS options, just in case there are some that may help.
As I can't access the net with the 4 bit colour DSL, what are the options to install the Xfree86 package, or any other DSL package for that matter? The HP has net access via Ubuntu and W98SE.
Thanks again.

I would like to share what I solved. I hope it might be helpful.

I use DSL from bootable CD. I got crazy color in the screen after DSL was booted. The font was almost un-readable.

So, I tried like the following steps in the boot process.

1. F3 to see boot option.

2. type "dsl vga=788" and press enter.

3. choose "Xfbdev xserver"

4. choose "Yes" in USB mouse? question

5. choose "US" keyboard

6. Done! and Enjoy DSL

Good Luck

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