After a while fiddling with the laptop I came to the conclusion that the stock (nv) driver would not run in 640x480, the updated X (nv) driver would not run in 640x480 and Nvidia official drivers would not run in 640x480 without severe blurring on all vertical edges and so I was left with the stock vesa driver which did run in 640x480 (with a virtual 800x600 screen) but has problems with the vertical scrolling.
The image seems to swap pixels and every 8 or so (have not counted), then the screen appears perfect but keep scrolling and it goes bad again.
Still it was usable and best of all X allows true 6bit color mode (64 colors) but whats bad is a number of X applications need at least 8 bit grrr. And one thing X has never been able to do is switch depth on the fly.
I could easily read webpages and other text and although slightly disorientating at first it did not give me a "head ache" as other such devices are reported to do to reviewers.
Time for some fun, I setup the XBox into DVD mode and put on futurama and some earphones and kept working while watching, very cool, bit entangled with cables but cool.

I am currently in the process of getting a web cam to work ont the laptop so I can see round corners or what is behind me (very important).

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Although my f-log is not just about the SV-3 or installing/maintaing Linux or trying to quieten my system it does contain the these and many other random ramblings I feel fit to regergitate to the web.

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