Nice! ;-)  Fortunately, my laptop has a completely stable and reliable  
display.  It's definitely a kernel driver problem.  A patched 2.4  
kernel allows me to get the full-width 1024x480 console, but the 2.6  
kernel is very different.

I'm just looking at modedb.c - the standard video mode definitions  
don't include 1024x480.  The 2.4 kernel patch modified this file; I'm  
wondering whether it would make a difference with the present kernel...

On 12 Mar 2006, at 22:43, Ville Syrjälä wrote:

I was looking for the OB500 service manual and I stumbled on a HP forum
thread discussing similar problems. It seems the "screen going white"
problem may be caused by oxidation of the screen cable connectors.

Here is the full thread:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do? 
threadId=121645

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Ville Syrjälä
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http://www.sci.fi/~syrjala/

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