when jumping to the console with latest linus 2.6.10-rc1-bk23, i now see the hole dmesg, previsouly i would only see a cursor, but i have no way back to x. i'm using xfree86 version 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 from debian sarge. Xfree86.0.log says then: (II) SIS(0): Restoring by setting old mode 0x38 my .config is attached and this are the sisfb lines out of dmesg: -- dmesg | egrep ^sisfb sisfb: Options sisfb: Video ROM found and mapped to 0xc00c0000 sisfb: Framebuffer at 0xd0000000, mapped to 0xe0080000, size 8192k sisfb: MMIO at 0xdfee0000, mapped to 0xe0040000, size 128k sisfb: Memory heap starting at 4096K, size 3576K sisfb: Detected LVDS transmitter sisfb: Detected Chrontel TV encoder sisfb: Detected 1024x768 flat panel sisfb: Detected LCD PDC 0x20 sisfb: Default mode is 1024x768x8 (60Hz) sisfb: Initial vbflags 0x3000022 sisfb: 2D acceleration is enabled, y-panning enabled (auto-max) sisfb: (C) 2001-2004 Thomas Winischhofer. -- thanks for you feedback maks