Had this same problem in Debian with my C600 with similar chipset...
I did get the display going at one point with the standard ATI stuff,
but it would still randomly 'white out' or 'black out' or get odd
verticle lines, especially when I switched from X to a terminal... I
just ended up reinstalling windows on it for a little while, then
Dylan tried again - ended up using generic (VESA?) drivers, I believe.
The ATI drivers just didn't seem to like that chipset very much.
On 6/2/06, Richard Smoot <rsmoot@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> I have a Dell Latitude CPx 500mhz pentium iii with an onboard ATI Rage P/M
> Mobility AGP 2X 8mb video ram. I can not get to a graphical login screen.
> Before I get there, the screen goes dark and starts to get light around the
> edges and in an uneven way gradually gets all white. At final version of this
> there are a few colored vertical lines on the display.
> During the install at the graphics set up nothing tested good.
>
> I can start it in safemode and get to runlevel 3 no sweat.
> I can start SAX and get a display that looks good no problem.
> Tell it OK, but when I reboot normal- same problem.
>
> When I installed SUSE10.0, I had a similar problem, but I
> can't remember how I fixed it.
> The same laptop had none of thease problems with Xandros 2.0,
> Xandros 3.0 OCE, or Simply Mepis 6.0 beta 4.
>
> Richard Smoot
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