Hello! I've tried 2.6.38 and 2.6.37 kernels with similar results even more 2.6.38 didn't booted. Definitively its hard to get linux working on the Dell inspiron 2600 laptop. By now I'm using the vesa driver to get Xorg working but I can't
switch to the text consoles and came back X because I only get a distorted image in the desktop.
I'll could try a bios update to A09 version despite that there is a lot of references on internet warning that the A11 bios version becomes the system unbootable with linux
After a lot of work in fine tunning, 2 problems still persists: 1-The most urgent: Xorg is failing with the intel driver 2-The second: synaptic touchpad don' t work but I still have standard mouse support.