All looked good at this point. The machine booted, and sound was functional. The next challange was X windows. Unfortunately the XFree86 version 3.3.2.3 doesn't know about the Chips & Technologies CT69000 chip. Consequently, I downloaded the XF86-3.3.4 binary from my nearest mirror (a list is available on http://www.xfree86.org. Only the server is required. Slap it in /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA and away we go. My XF86Config is in Appendix C. This was constructed using xf86config, as for a similar C&T chipset, modified by hand to suit the C&T69000. I have trimmed a lot of the comments and stuff which is irrelevant to this notebook, if you prefer the more verbose one it is easy enough to generate again. Basically you get the full 800x600 in 24, 16 and 8 bits/pixel. The 16 bpp mode is significantly faster than 24 bpp for some operations (see the KDE shutdown screen :) but if quality is your thing (as it is for me) then stick with 24 bpp. Doubtless X support for this chipset will improve in the future.
The only oddity appears to be the behaviour of this system after running Windows (surprise surprise) - something funny seems to happen to the colourmap. Two simple solutions - either don't run Windows (my personal favourte solution ;) or cold boot before running Linux.
I use KDE. It looks great on this notebook, but you need to use fairly small fonts and icons otherwise your valuable screen real-estate will get cluttered up. FVWM looks OK too but not quite there on the graphical computing paradigm front ;-)