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Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron 8k and ATI Rage Mobility 128
From: "Brandon S. Allbery " KF8NH <allbery@ece.cmu.edu>
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On Tue, 2002-01-08 at 23:48, Andrew Reid wrote:
> > running then I lose the ability to switch to a text session; the screen
> > stays in 1600x1200 graphics, changes to strange colors, and gradually
> > "fades" to either white or black.
> 
> Which version of X are you using? It strikes me as odd that the problem
> went away in RedHat 7.0, where I'd have been running XFree86 4.x. I 
> might try upgrading X and see what the results are.

2@vpn6:4999 Z$ pkg_info | grep XFr
XFree86-4.1.0_11    X11R6.4/XFree86 core distribution (complete)

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