OK, I've put Debian
onto my Dell Inspiron 8200 - over a period of months working out one little bug
after another until it seems not-too-bad... but...
When the display
goes into standby on battery and blanks to save power, any X window (I've tried
most of the windows managers on the computer...gnome, KDE, etc...) is
discombobulated when it repaints the display. The display painting
(appearance) is split in the middle and reversed/inverted so that the
'status' bar is across the middle of the screen (just above center), the 'top'
of the screen right beneath it, and the top and bottom of the actual screen are
the same point. The window 'buttons' or icons appear on the status bar or in
their 'normal' location with regards to the discontinuous appearance; but, the
actual windows are in the correct point - if I hold the mouse cursor over the
lower edge of the physical screen (which looks like the middle of the window)
the 'mouseover' tooltips appear halfway up the screen!
I'm not terribly
confident or familiar with Linux and am trying to 'work my way in' at least for
my own work (I need Microsloth's Windows at work)... who manages this... where
do I start? Video driver? Xfree? Window manager (doesn't seem likely since it
works identically with all of 'em)?
Thanks for any help
or suggestions!
Pete
