X-problems on the inspiron 8000 continue

[Henrik Nilsen Omma]

I was possibly a bit quick yesterday to declare that everything was now 
perfect with X on the inspiron 8000. It installed fine when I selected 
1400x1050 and booted at full resolution in X (it did not autodetect and 
configure automatically though, bug 1143).

I wanted to take some screenshots to place in the Win-FOSS installer, so 
I wanted to reduce the resolution to make smaller images. I used the set 
resolution utility from the Computer menu. 1400x1050 and 1280x1024 
(which I selected myself during install) work fine, but 640x480, 800x600 
and 1024x768 (which were pre-selected) do not work at all. When choosing 
those, I get a split screen with nasty aberrations. So, from reading the 
previous comments, I guess it failed to detect my resolution properly at 
the install stage, and made a few safe guesses, which in the end turned 
out not to work after all. I guess if the new xresprobe detects the 
1400x1050 perfectly, then it won't suggest any other option and no other 
choices will be available from Gnome. It is, however, sometimes useful 
to run at a reduced resolution, such as when taking screenshots. 
Granted, this is something of a special interest thing, but Windows and 
other Linux distros do manage to run this laptop at alternative resolutions.

I'm probably not qualified to sort out this issue in the time we have 
available, but I can lend the laptop in question to anyone who is. I'm 
in Oxford now and can possibly have the laptop taken to London today, 
Sunday (a friend from London will be visiting and will return to London  
later today, and could probably drop it off somewhere). Any takers?

Also, could someone with an Ubuntu install running at medium resolutions 
(800x600 and 1024x768) please take some screenshots? Time is getting 
short for integrating that into the Ubuntu Win-FOSS browser 
(http://sounder:winwart@www.theopencd.net/testing/) Thanks.

- Henrik