Garbled screen running Ubuntu on Sony VAIO PCG-748

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Garbled screen running Ubuntu on Sony VAIO PCG-748

I recently installed Ubuntu 5.1 on an old Sony VAIO PCG-748. It's a little slow, but still gets things done. I managed to get the system to run at 1024x768 in 16-bit and 15-bit graphics mode. However, sometimes, the middle of the screen gets garbled when displaying dialog boxes (see photo below). Anyone know what's the deal? What are some fixes? Seems that the video memory is corrupted or something.

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Chieh Cheng
Tue, 14 Nov 2006 14:23:42 -0800

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Title: Sony VAIO PCG-748 - Using full-screen resolution in Ubuntu 5.1
Weblog: GearHack
Excerpt: Several months ago, I had installed Ubuntu 5.1 on a Sony VAIO PCG-748 notebook computer. This is a very old notebook and run very slow. And I haven't had much use for it until the last couple of days. Once I started using it, I noticed that the fonts are very blocky and strange looking. Then I reali . . .
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