Hi! I'm developing for pdas and I just can't get the ipaq 4700 to work in vga mode. Could any of you point me to a tutorial or just tell me how? Thanks

Read through this.

The short answer is you have to set the VGA-aware flag in your executable. Add HI_RES_AWARE CEUX {1} to your resource file.

If you're using GAPI, that is QVGA only, you can't use it to draw on a VGA display. Use PocketHAL, PocketFrog, or the GETRAWFRAMBUFFER extension instead to get access to the actual display.