painted myself into a corner..

Ok, so hearing good things about the x.org server
and having seen it work elsewhere, I upgraded my laptop
from XFree86 to x.org today..
all went fine..
Except running it I just get a black screen.
no errors.. The Server thinks it's doing just fine..

ok, so I go to my wife's ibook and surf around a bit and discover
that this is known..  Dell Inspiron 7500 and x.org
have this problem.

There is talk of a workaround in linux.. setting a kernel argument to 
vga=753 or someothing similar, and there is one posting that talks about
a similar workaround for FreeBSD existing, but I have not been
able to find the workaround itself.  Apparently this has been solved
somewhere as well, but I can't find any specific reference to what the fix
is/was.

If anyone has a hint as to what the problem is (apparently some IBM
laptops have the same problem (they use the same Rage mobility-M chip).

Looking forward to having X again...

If anyone has a dell 7500 working with x,org, I'd love to get a copy
of your ati driver or a description of how you solved it..

T.I.A.

Julian