I tried vesainfo and got yhe following: Allegro VESAINFO utility 3.0 By Shawn Hargreaves, 1997 VESASignature: VESA VESAVersion: 3.0 OEMStringPtr: Brookdale-G Graphics Chip Accelerated VGA BIOS TotalMemory: 125 (8000K) Mode 0x107: 1280x1024 8 bpp packed pixel Mode 0x112: 640x480 32 bpp direct color (xRGB 8888) Mode 0x114: 800x600 16 bpp direct color (RGB 565) Mode 0x115: 800x600 32 bpp direct color (xRGB 8888) Mode 0x116: 1024x768 15 bpp direct color (RGB 555) Mode 0x117: 1024x768 16 bpp direct color (RGB 565) Mode 0x118: 1024x768 32 bpp direct color (xRGB 8888) Mode 0x11A: 1280x1024 16 bpp direct color (RGB 565) Mode 0x11B: 1280x1024 32 bpp direct color (xRGB 8888) Mode 0x109: 132x25 4 bpp text Mode 0x10A: 132x43 4 bpp text Mode 0x10B: 132x50 4 bpp text Mode 0x10C: 132x60 4 bpp text Mode 0x101: 640x480 8 bpp packed pixel Mode 0x103: 800x600 8 bpp packed pixel Mode 0x105: 1024x768 8 bpp packed pixel Mode 0x111: 640x480 16 bpp direct color (RGB 565) 'vesainfo -v' for a verbose listing What does this meen as far as 256 color pictues on my machine? Doug Stewart