yeah, sorry, i must have confused you with a missing full stop, I'll edit it. Anyway good to hear that its working now.

Yeah, I replied there too, check this site http://www.lesswatts.org/ . I couldn't try yet since my power adapter burned recently and didn't get a new one yet.

http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forums/showthread.php?t=48737
p0cTeam's method worked for desktop hd 5770.

After installation, before running startx, install new drivers for the vga.

Update:
http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forums/showthread.php?t=48737
p0cTeam's method worked for desktop hd 5770
after installation, before running startx, install new drivers for the vga.

try downloading and installing ATI linux driver before running startx

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