On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Ola Theander wrote: > Dear subscribers. > > I've recently upgraded to XFree86 on my Dell Inspiron 8000 laptop, hoping to > solve a problem that sometimes occur when I shut down my KDE 2.2.1 > installation to get back to the shell. The problem is that KDE hangs and the > items on the screen fades away in some strange graphics effect. It looks > pretty much like burning paper. After this the KDE is totally locked. The > only thing that helps is to turn off the power. 1. What FlashBIOS are you using ? Early ones were quire buggy, the latest A18 & A19 seems to have a problem with the fans. It probably pays to upgrade to A17 if you have an earlier one (I had similar problems with earlier BIOSes) 2. With respect to X modes: Dell offers atimp310.rpm, atimp312.rpm and atimp314.rpm which contains each a XF86Config-4 for various screen resolutions. Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:r.hristev@phys.canterbury.ac.nz Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics & Astronomy Dept., New Zealand
