intell i845G on Dell dimension gives blank screen when switching users or switching VTs

This one has been a pain for a really long time. On my Dell dimension 2400 with a pentium4 in it, and an i845G* video card, when I changed VTs or switch users the screen goes blank and I can't get it to come back. And now on SLED 10 I can't get more then 800 x 600 resolution.
So I did some research and came up the the following links

http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/dsn/en/document?c=us&cs=04&docid=125C48475F2CC36BE0401E0A551758EE&journalid=796235A6471B11DB97C60767E62D0E13&l=en&s=bsd#en#us not very useful but sent me to intel's site where I found this driver

http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df-external/filter_results.aspx?strTypes=all&ProductID=865&OSFullName=Linux*&lang=eng&strOSs=39&submit=Go%21
I need to figure out what driver I have and see if I need to install this one.