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On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 15:40:50 -0400
Chris Shenton <chris@shenton.org> wrote:

> Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net> writes:
> 
> > I would probably switch to "radeon" without DRI.  If that doesn't work,
> > "vesa".  Nobody uses "vga", so it may be broken.
> 
> I've tried "radeon" without DRI but get blue blotches in Mozilla and
> GAIM and some others where graphics shoudl be. Others have commented
> they get the same.

Not mine, as long as I keep DRI off, "radeon" works golden.

> I can use VESA but can't configure it to drive my big LCD, it doesn't
> want to do the 19200x1600; I think the most it did was 1600x1200.

My lcd screen has natural 1280x1020 resolution, so that may help too.
Are you dedicating enough video ram in your BIOS setup?

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Albert Vest, al vest at earth link dot net