I have a Compaq 1800T laptop. 1400/1050 screen with a ATI Mobility AGP(2) 16MB graphics card. First time I installed LM8 the graphics worked at 1400!!! It was beautiful.. However, hitting ctrl-alt-F1 to go to console produced LCD frying, i.e. nothing visible. Reinstalled, worked again! installed some games, rebooted got a bunch of "INPUT/OUTPUT" effors with the different services in rc.5 or something. Locked up. Rebooted into failsafe, worked. But slowly, however, console mode worked fine. Every subsecuent normal linux boot, went real slow.. so I reinstalled. Now here's the problem. Now, whenever I install, it asks me what kind of monitor I have and no matter what I chose, I get LCD Frying... why does it ask me now, but not the first two times? Anyone have any clues?? Is there a way to perform the X-windows graphics setup from console mode? Set the card, and resolution and try to start xwindows? Please help, I want to fix this so bad so I can put up a T-file on linuxlaptops.com. I've been working at this for 90 days, reading about the kernel, drivers, XF86, sound.. I will get it!! Thanks!
