zaphod the doubled headed HP Kayak is alive and well and currently living on the work bench. had to ditch the Mach64 cards after they refused to play with xfree86 4. found two matrox milleniums instead that do the job nicely. after that the rest was a breeze, xf86cfg is fantastic after having gotten used to the old utils, very impressed. still not quite figured out if it is possible to drag windows from one monitor to the other. shame the machine won't be mine after all that, which makes me think about upgrading r2d2 to xfree86 4, and adding a second card to it. the current one is built into the mboard, which may prove problematic.
really must build a front end for this log, typing raw html is fun for a while, but the novelty soon wares off....