[Bug 15224] Breezy 5.10 Preview installer requires vga=771 to function on ATI X300

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------- Additional Comments From felix.rommel at web.de  2005-09-25 14:38 UTC -------
Same problems here on an Acer Aspire 1353 notebook with VIA KN400. I had to pass
vga=771 to the installer. I haven't tried the newest Colony 5 CD install but the
problem is independent of that:

If I remove the vga=771 from the Grub boot line I only get a screwed up screen.
I can imagine hardly a usplash coming up but it's all but a clear boot screen.
Nevertheless X comes up correctly. But the screwed screens are still there if I
switch to the virtual terminals tty1-tty7.

Xorg runs with the Vesa driver because if I use the Xorg VIA driver I cannot use
the terminals tty1-tty7 even if I pass vga=771 to the boot prompt. I have
already reported the problem with the VIA driver and the KN400 in my notebook.

I will never buy a VIA graphics card again. I only have problems with it - 1
year ago when I bought the notebook I thought there will be a native driver
available for it instead of the sooo slow Vesa driver... But even after that
year I'm not able to use the optimized VIA driver - not to speak about 3D
support which is not there. I tried many hours to compile the unichrome.sf.net
driver but the beast of graphic card refused to work with it.

I attach a lspci output for my card.

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