If your video card isn't supported by XFree86 4.x, and lots of old chips aren't...486 machines should just go to that great computer grave yard after all... Anyway, RedHat/Fedora/Whater is detecting your chipset, and most likely using XFree86 v3.x instead of v4.x, thus the better performance. It looks like Debian has dropped support for XFree86 v3 in Testing/Unstable, but you could add in stable source lines and fetch the old version of your XServer. Debian is trying to tell you something: Get rid of that old laptop. :) -- Andrew S. Zbikowski | http://andy.zibnet.us A password is like your underwear; Change it frequently, don't share it with others, and don't ask to borrow someone else's.