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mjr1007
July 30th, 2009, 02:43 AM
A search of the title didn't turn up anything so here goes.

I have an old (8 years) dell latitude notebook with ati video.
It's a 1 GHz P2 (coppermine) with 1/2 GB and ati video (1400x1050)

The live cd boots but the screen has this odd effect, a duplicate on the right third of the screen. it interferes with the other display and makes it completely unusable. Not sure where to go from here.

I was thinking maybe booting in text mode and loading a different video driver, but have no idea how to do that or if it's the right thing to do.

Any help would be appreciated.

tia

mjr1007