[NTLUG:Discuss] Interesting Dell D600 problem

[Rick Cook]

Hi,

I am now on my 3rd dead LCD Panel for my Dell Latitude D600. The first one 
went out last fall, the second a few weeks ago and the third a couple of days 
ago. I don't know about the first one, however, the basic symptom on the last 
two was that the Panel ID and Panel Size from the LCD BIOS got munged and the 
laptop BIOS now says "unknown panel" for the Panel Type.

This was after ~2 years of no problems.

I run Debian unstable on it staying at least "weekly current" usually using 
the Xorg X server (I have occasionally experimented with the ATI fglrx 
driver, though not recently). I haven't been able to find any mention of 
similar problems in my "googling".


Any suggestions?


Rick