Hi, Just following the thread......I have an I8K running LM8.2 . When I upgraded from 8.1 (XFree86 4.2.0) I could not get any resolutions other than 1400x1050. So I set up all my font sizes to compensate. Are the listed rpms good on 8.2? Have you tried them? tia, Bill W. On Thursday 18 April 2002 06:59 pm, you wrote: > 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,
