> Congrats to the people on colour X, works great on my cx (toby card).

I'm glad it works for you :-)

> It makes a mess of X (causing me to refresh constantly) and is driving
> me nuts...
> 
> The messages (from the serial ports me guess)
> 
> ....zs0a: ring overrun
> ....zs0b: ring overrun
> ....last message repeated n times

Run xconsole or xterm with -C option.  All console messages will get
sent to whichever you choose to run.  You may have to run them as
root, though.

ken