Well, I gave up and went back to the "Generic|Generic Laptop Display Panel 1600x1200" as I never had problems when using this Monitor setting in Mdk 8.0. Now X hasn't crashed on me yet! Somehow, I thought selecting the Dell Laptop monitor settings would help me out, but apparently not. I still prefer the higher refresh rate that is achieved with the Dell Monitor setting, but I'll sacrifice using a lower refresh rate to not have a hard crash of my laptop (I'll just have to sacrifice the health of my eyes!).
Thanks for the tip Randy, GenEric Randy Welch wrote: > > generic wrote: > > > Hi, I recently installed Mandrake 8.1 on my Dell Lattitude C800 > > laptop, and occasionally (once out of every 5 or 6 times) when I log-out > > from the X-session (in either KDE or in Gnome), the screen begins > > to turn all white, and the computer locks up hard ... and then after > > about 30 seconds or so, it powers off! When I reapply power, a message > > eventually appears claiming that /dev/hda9 (my "/" partition) was not > > cleanly unmounted, so a check is forced. > > I learned that on a laptop it's a good idea to have a journaling > filesystem installed. Much less pain on a hard shutdown. > > > > > Also, I select "Dell|Dell 1280X Laptop Display Panel" as my type of > > monitor using XFdrake & 1280x1024 16bpp resolution. During install > > of Mandrake 8.1, I used the suggested XFree86 4.1.0 w/ acceleration > > for my server. > > Might want try the the generic 1280x1024 laptop display settings. > They seem to quite well ( or at least on my A22p with the Rage > chip.) > > -randy
