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A question and a report. A pixel on my 701c's active matrix display has started to go bad. It was stuck on (blue) for a while, then went back to working, then got stuck on again, and seems to have decided to stay that way. I was wondering if there was anything I could do to save my otherwise flawless TFT. I got the XFree86 3.2 SVGA driver and installed it with Redhat Linux 4.0. I changed XF86Config to reflect a 16bpp depth and added a 25Hz clock. Fired it up and presto - X-Windows in 32k colors on my TP701. It's slow, but it makes graphics apps and web page browsing bearable now. There is a slight problem when I first start up X - the display seems to have "static" and there are vertical bars of slightly different color. But they go away if I switch to the Fn-F1 BIOS setup screen or suspend the machine, then go back to X. Same thing applies if I switch between the console and X. -- John H. Kim jokim@mit.edu