FC1 and Laptops?

[Andreas Mueller]

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