[TriLUG] dell laptop - bad X

[Mike Norwood]

I will reply to my own message here and say that I have tried Redhat 9, 
Mandrake 9.1 and the latest RedHat beta all with the same results, 
although the Mandrake did not seem to darken the screen as much when I 
switched screens.

Thanks again.

On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Mike Norwood wrote:

> 
> Hello,
> 
> I was wondering if anyone on this list has had any luck getting a decent X 
> display on a Dell Inspiron 1100 laptop.  It apparently uses an Intel 845 
> video chipset and I can not get it to run at greater than 640x480 unless I 
> go down to 256 colors.  256 colors would actually not be so terrible 
> except when I switch to a virtual console the screen has become really 
> dim. If I try to a greater number of colors it appears the system does not 
> have enough video memory to do this.  I have done some google searches but 
> am not finding anything very clear.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Mike Norwood
> 
>