Inspiron 510m & i855

[Alexander Ruoff]

Just have a question...

I do have some problems with my Inspiron 510m and Linux.

FC1 gives me the "greenscreen", FC2tr1 has the same problem and thus I 
tried it with SuSE where I get only 640x instead of 1024x.

I found some websites which explained various ways to fix this problem 
of the Bios, but all I managed to do was preventing the laptop from 
crashing when I test the screen.

Once, I managed to test it on 1024 but after the reboot, I am still 
stuck with 640. But now, the PC gives me only vga driver instead of the 
i855. I tried various patches (maybe one to much?) but except that X 
seems to be more stable, all I get is the following error message:

X-Server-Test fehlgeschlagen

(ww) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such device)
(KK) No driver available

First thing I care is how I get the Inspiron to mork on 1024 and than I 
try to get FC1 running. Problem is that I have no Idea how to compile a 
Kernel and if that would solve the problem, since it's apparently a 
fault of the bios. I am also too "fresh" with Linux thus I believe that 
I mixed various solutions to solve the problem which might cause 
additional problems.

It's funny that my old K6 with 96 MB runs great with FC1/Gnome (no, it's 
not slow) but I can't get a proper resolution on a new Laptop. Anyway, 
thanks in advance for any help ;)

Alex