On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Justin Bengtson wrote: > sounds like a video card or APM/ACPI problem. I just talked to him on the phone (and I also know him personally, BTW). He said tonight he thinks it is the video driver giving the problem since he has a 1600x1200 screen and RedHat 7.1 only supplied a 1280x1024 driver. He's going to check and see if Dell has a driver on their site. However, his immediate problem is that he hasn't successfully fscked his filesystem back to working condition yet since the WSOD. :( > what's the specs on an Inspiron 8000? > Video card? Rage Mobility IV, 32MB > RAM? 256MB > Processor? PentiumIII 700MHz > these may give you a good clue. another suggestion, after you have > figured out all of your hardware is to compile the latest kernel (not > sure what cRudHat 7.1 has...). the video card driver may be the key > here, but it seems to be affecting wierd things... Good idea. > > ah well, i tried my best. good luck! For Tad, thanks. -Chris
