duncan brown wrote: > i'm not sure if someone already mentioned this, but: > > getting fc1 to work on my alienware 51m's wide screen display sucks, > it XF86 won't display the 1680x1050 properly, it only does 14??x1050, > so everything's warped... i have an ati card, though i've heard that > the nvidia's aren't too hard to do... > > because of this, and the fact that the apm doesn't work properly with > fc1, i only use my trusty old dell inspiron 4000 (700mhz 256mb 40gb > compared to the alien's 2.8ghz 768mb 40gb) Why don't you use ACPI? Boot your kernel with the option "acpi=on", it works much better than APM. Regards, Andreas