Did it used to work? I've never had one of these laptops myself so I've never tested on one.
Actually, it is the first time I try to get XFree86 working on this laptop.
Does hitting the "Font" key fix it up again?
What do you mean with "Font" key ? If you think of a key enabling to toggle display expansion, to my knowledge there is no such key on the Inspiron 8500.
However, I've found out that Diego Santa Cruz, who also owns an Inspiron 8500, notes [1]: "I experienced problems when coming from graphical mode back to text mode in that the screen would be all garbled. I disabled the display expansion in the BIOS and the problem disappeared."
Regards,
Christophe.
[1] http://ltswww.epfl.ch/~dsanta/resources/dell-i8500-linux
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