I have a mobility U1 in my laptop. ( compaq 900us )

I have the same problem. I just finished downloading 2003-3-30 and will try the CD again.

From what I understand, XFree86 4.3 has full support for all currently released ATi cards. If it were up to me, it'd would have had nvidia in there but that is for another thread.

For our 7000 / 7500 spinoff cards, the radeon driver should work fine now instead of vesa. In Redhat and Gentoo, the radeon driver used to cause a kernel panics on boot from about 4.2.99 or something like that and we HAD to use vesa in order for it to even boot.