Re: Dell Inspiron 1100 video problems

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On Friday 19 March 2004 01:44, andrei wrote:
>  Hardware: Dell 1100 laptop, 256 Mb memory, A23 BIOS, Intel 845G videocard
> Operating system: RedHat 9
>
>  1. I loaded XFree8 4.4, but still having video problems. X-windows does
>    work 1024x768x8, but refuses to work 1024x768x24

This page helped me with my Dell Inspiron 1100 (i845GL video):
http://nbpfaus.net/~pfau/inspiron.html
specifically the link to 
http://www.chzsoft.com.ar/855patch.html

>  2. I had small screen during start-up of the system and modified
>     /boot/grub/grub.conf   to add "vga=773" at the "kernel" line.
>     Now after exiting from X-windows, fonts become extremely fuzzy
>     (were normal before starting X-windows), so I can barely read
>     commands. Fonts were OK before adding "vga=773" comment

Don't know about this. Could be a VGA or framebuffer issue.

-- 
Lieven Buts
Department of Ultrastructure
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
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