4.1 Configuration of the X Windows System

To utilize a windows manager the graphic card and the display need to be configured. (Discregarding the touchscreen for now.)

The Stylistic LT C-500 has a Trident graphic card connected to the PCI bus. 'lspci -v' reports it as:
[...]
00:14.0 VGA compatible controller: Trident Microsystems Cyber 9525 (rev 49) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: Citicorp TTI Lifebook C6155
       Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 9
       Memory at fe800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
       Memory at fe120000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
       Memory at fe400000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
       Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=64K]
       Capabilities: [80] AGP version 1.0
       Capabilities: [90] Power Management version 1
[...]


I had no problem get it detected by sax2, the SuSE configuration tool. After that /etc/X11/XFConfig contained the entry:
[...]
Section "Device"
  BoardName "Cyber 9525"
  BusID "0:20:0"
  Driver "trident"
  Identifier "Device[0]"
  VendorName "Trident"
EndSection
[...]


The display was entered as:
[...]
Section "Monitor"
  HorizSync 31-65
  Identifier "Monitor[0]"
  ModelName "800X600@75HZ"
  Option "DPMS"
  VendorName "--> LCD"
  VertRefresh 58-75
  UseModes "Modes[0]"
EndSection
[...]


with the mode:
[...]
Section "Modes"
  Identifier "Modes[0]"
  Modeline "800x600" 46.80 800 816 928 1072 600 600 610 626
EndSection
[...]