f you use a laptop with a Sis graphics card, you will notice that new Debian based distros are leaving you with the wrong colour depth, which means you get blurred circles and strange colour blotches on your desktop.

The cure is

1. a Edit your /boot/grub/menu.list and change the Dreamlinux or other Debian based distro entry to include:

video=sisfb

You might also need to remove the vga=* entry.

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