My IBM Thinkpad does goofy things sometimes too when waking up from sleep. Sometimes it will start up sending video to external port only and then lock up when I try to switch it back to the internal screen. It also has screen modes for displaying less than max resolution where it can "stretch" the pixels to fill out the screen, and it has been known to switch that capability on and off without any intervention on my part. At first I thought it was the vid drivers or Win2k, but then I realized that it was changing its own bios to change the video modes, so there was really nothing I could do about it. So, what you're telling me about your Dell is no surprise at all. I don't have any answers, but I feel for ya man! - Kevin Matt Graham To: kclug@kclug.org Sent by: cc: owner-kclug@marauder.i Subject: Shut laptop.... whacked resolution... lliana.net 02/05/2003 04:40 PM Man... all these meetings you guys are having sound cool. Field trips and all?!? Looks like we have a date now... we'll be moving out there the first week of June. So, I found something interesting. I'm running rh8 on my laptop (dell inspiron 8200). When I shut the lid or the screen goes off to conserve battery power, the resolution is stretched funny when it comes back on (or when I open it up.) It's about twice as wide as it is tall, and only half the screen (with crazy proportions) is showing. In the display settings, I made sure it was using the correct (I think) monitor and that the physical size is set. Tho... I use a ruler to find the physical size. Still...same stuff. The only way to fix it is to restart X. I just use ctrl-alt-bksp. Has anyone seen this before? Matt