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Rich:
Hi Derfdog
He said you do not need to install Xvesa.
After you installed Xorg, did you restart x? Ctrl-Alt-Backspace  and then enter  startx

tinypoodle:
You should possibly also load the xf86-video-intel extension with xorg

Also have a look at following posts (rather dated) for hints and maybe you could find more using the "Search" function:
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=9785.0
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=6495.0

On a sidenote:

You could get syntax help for most commands using

--- Code: ---command --help
--- End code ---

e.g. "ps" has no -e or -f options.
Best not blindly to rely on options from non busysbox versions of commands, or they might not do what you intended to, though in specific case they just get silently ignored.

To get a bit more detailed output, instead of "ps" you could use:

--- Code: ---top -n1|grep Xvesa
--- End code ---

tinypoodle:
Not sure which version of opera you tried, but I remember somehow there were some versions having issues with either Xvesa or certain screen modes.

I did a test, and on my system with Xvesa started with "-screen 640x480x16" opera does indeed work as expected.

For the record, I tested with opera-12.11-1661.i386.linux as provided on opera ftp server.

EDIT:
Out of curiosity I did some further testing, and even 320x200x15 as a minimum would still work :D

Derfdog:
Still having problems but I think I am closer, while TC is loading the screen flashes different colors.

But before I go any further, I will sit down and walk through everything, then I will try booting from CD on a different PC.

Thanks for your help.

Derfdog:
Success!
Well after reading and more reading I finally started to get the hang of it.  It looks like my primary problem was that I needed to set up Bootcode for my VGA setting.  Once I did I started to see the TC logo during boot, so I knew I was getting close.  My initial setting was for vga=785 ( 65000 (16 bit)) but I was getting undefined video number:314, when TC booted up. So I had to choose 800x600x8

For some reason when I went with the lower vga setting I was able to see the icons of the apps that I had downloaded.  I installed midori web browser but I could not get it to startup, my next step was to install a simple program so I found a calculator that installed and would show up on the desktop.  I then installed Seamonkey browser and it ran but the graphics are very poor and can barely read the words.  I either have my graphics not set right or the 830M intel graphics controller really is bad.

I must admit that TC does boot fast, I hope I can find someway to improve my graphics.
And thanks for everyone's input.
Derfdog

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