I am running RH 6.2 and GNOME & Enlightenment on a ThinkPad 600E, and
I am having trouble with X.  Occasionally.

Normally the display is just fine -- however, under certain
circumstances it will get repainted about a third larger in
the Y dimension, pushing things off the bottom of the screen
and into inaccessibility.

Two situations under which this happens reliably:

1. Inserting a PCMCIA card while suspended
2. Using the Fn-F7 key combo to switch to an external monitor
   (when the keypress actually does its job -- see below)

What happens is that everything suddenly becomes elongated
and about a third again as large in the Y direction.  The
upper left remains anchored, but everthing stretches downward
from there.  That means that the panel and anything else in the
bottom third of each desktop is out of reach.

That is the first problem.  I am hoping someone has seen this
before, and either knows how to undo it or (even better) keep
it from happening in the first place.

The second problem is that X almost always captures the monitor
switch key combo.  If X is not running, Fn-F7 will correctly
cycle through scree/external/screen+external displays.  If
X *is* running, sometimes (rarely) it will do that (but wank
the screen into elongated unusability as described above), but
mostly the screen just flickers and no signal is sent to the
display output port.  Repeated keypresses result in the
same >flicker<-but-nothing-else behaviour.  Booting up with
an external monitor does not appear to make any difference.

Has anyone ever encountered either of these?  They make giving
presentations from Linux problematical indeed..  I need to
give one in Brasil next week, so I am hoping for a quick
fix. :-D

TIA!
-- 
#ken    P-)}

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