X problems on inspiron 8000

[Luke Shulenburger <sluke@bartender.mit.edu>]

Hello,
I just installed woody on my laptop and I'm having problems with
Xfree4.  Whenever I start X everything works fine (regardless of 
my choice of window manager) for a couple seconds.  Then I hear
a hard disk access and the mouse stops working.  No matter how long
I let the computer sit, I can't get the mouse to move again, except
if I change back to one of the virtual consoles (leaving X running).
Then when I change back to X I get the same problem where I can
move the mouse for a few seconds and things freeze again.  Has anyone
experienced anything similar?  Is this even the correct list for this
question?  thanks for your time.

Luke Shulenburger
(sluke@mit.edu)