dell latitude d600 feedback - FC2 Test3

[Skahan, Vince]

Some details regarding Test3 on a Dell Latitude D600 laptop in case
anybody can make any suggestions.

1. The sound works now.  Wonderful !

2. My Orinoco Gold 802.11b card works great with 128bit WEP.

3. Adding rpms manually from a shell results in lots of complaints that
      look like selinux stuff scrolling by, although I did not install
selinux
      at all.  The installation worked fine though.  Also lots of syslog
messages,
      many (many!) per second periodically.

     Updating all the possible rpms via up2date worked fine via the gui,
although
     I got prompted with a 'unknown gpg key, ok?' popup for each rpm.
I'm pretty
     sure that I told it to import the key when initially prompted.

4. The xwindows setup results in a X config file that will only go to
800x600,
      even though the display can run 1400x1250 easily.  Where did the 
      'generic SVGA' card selection go ?

      - I got the system to a nice 1024x768 mode by changing the video
card
          to vesa and adding the higher resolution mode of course

       - on control-alt-F1 to get out of Xwindows to a virtual console,
the screen
          goes black with no cursor or way to get back, needed to pull
the battery
          to crash the system

       - when I log out of Xwindows, the screen goes black similarly,
need to pull
          the battery to crash the system

       - when I select 'shutdown' from Xwindows, same problem, pull the
battery time

       - when I type "shutdown" in a xterm window, same problem, pull
the battery time

The 'need to pull the battery' thing is a show-stopper of course.  Any
suggestions ?

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