For information to the Mandrake team :-) The ATI Rage Mobility P graphics devices on the Dell Inspiron range of laptops seem to be upset by the X configuration generated by the installation process. Symptoms are: the system completely freezes (can't even be ping'd) when the screen is placed in the low power state. There seems to be two 100% effective workarounds: (1) Select Xfree 3.3.6 and not V4 (2) Select V4 and then manually edit the config file - comment out the "option DPMS" line. Also on these machines the framebuffer kernel does not seem to inter-operate with either XFree 3 or 4 properly. After leaving the Xconfiguration during the install process, the framebuffer display is completely unreadable - it looks like it wraps around on itself. This is also a problem if you choose to boot with Aurora - when you shut the machine down you get a hideous flashing screen, likewise if you try the virtual consoles. This is a problem which still needs a fix! Thanks to Vadim Plessky, Chmouel Boudjnah and Franco Silvestro for their helpful and useful suggestions. /Kevin -- Kevin J. Maciunas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Computer Science PH: +61-8-8303-5586 The University of Adelaide FAX:+61-8-8303-4366 Adelaide 5005 South Australia
