The important line is quoted below:

On 8/4/05, Thomas Rieff <trieff at greencaremankato.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Motion, Inc. SM710 LynxEM
> (rev a3)
> 

I did a quick google search and found this webpage 
http://www.x.org/X11R6.8.2/doc/siliconmotion.4.html which says that the 
SM710 is supported using the siliconmotion x.org <http://x.org> driver. 
Another website says that siliconmotion is not supported in Xfree86 4.1 (
http://the.earth.li/XFree86/4.0.1/Status29.html)

I couldn't figure out what module needs to be loaded for it to work. But you 
might just try running 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86' (as root) and see 
if you can choose siliconmotion as a possible driver.

Run 'dpkg -l xserver-xfree86' to find out what version of xfree86 you are 
running.

You might have to try running Ubuntu (another Debian based distro) that uses 
x.org <http://x.org>. Or you could have a go at Debian's unstable branch 
which has just included x.org <http://x.org>.

-- 
Jeff Rasmussen
GPG public key 0x9686C12F
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