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 > > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
