Comment 4 for bug 96958

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Mitch Golden (mgolden) wrote :

On further thought: I have noticed that on some older chipsets, such as the neomagic one in the Vaio, and on a i810 I have in an older Dell, the machine doesn't quite work properly unless I manually edit the xorg.conf file to include XaaNoPixMapCache. (And in the neomagic case, I need to use SWCursor as well.) There are a few other flaky things I see during the install, such as bars across the start menu when I call it up. These persist right after the install, but I have fixed them in the past by adding these flags to xorg.conf after the install.

I don't know if this could have anything to do with the map problem, but there's some chance it's related. Of course, there's no way to edit the xorg.conf file when it's on the CDROM, so I don't know exactly how to test this theory. Is there some way to make an ISO I could burn with a different xorg.conf?