Laptops :: Acer Travelmate 230, Intel 82845G, low colours/res
after trying the XF86config and mydsl packages, i came across these site's which helped:
http://www.xfree86.org/~dawes/845driver.html
http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/intel845g/linux.htm
basically all i had to do was change in my bios settings to the amount of shared memory allocated to the video chip on boot-up... from 1Mb to 8Mb
now dont need any mydsl packages, the standard dsl iso works great now i get all the res choices in Xvesa panel !
--- onto the modem...
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