Edgy LiveCD X resolution and GParted freeze.

[The Joker]

Hi all,

I tried to upgrade from Dapper to Edgy last weekend, but the LiveCD 
seems to have an issue with my graphics card (ATI Radeon 9800 Pro).

The first time I booted from the CD, everything worked fine. Screen 
resolution was 1024x768, which was fine for what I wanted. I attempted 
to install an upgrade to Edy from the desktop icon, but the installation 
program froze on Step 5 of 6  - Manual partitioning. The GParted window 
started to load, but then the whole system crashed.

I rebooted the PC using the live CD again, but from that point on, the X 
     server resolution was only 640x480, and could no be changed. No 
other resolutions were available. I reconfigured the X server and 
everything worked out, but I still could manually partition my drives.

So, two questions:

1) Why is the Live CD no longer allowing me to change the resolution to 
anything other than 640x480 without reconfiguring the X Server?

2) Can I install an Edgy upgrade using manual partitioning? Has anyone 
found a way to fix this issue?

Regards,

--
The Joker


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