there's no way around that?

I do have drivers... i'm using (what's it called?) QE/CI, with the semi-transparent menu bar.

I don't really know what VESA is but I don't think I'm using it. is VESA the default/standard graphics displaying format?

VESA is a standard for various formats, graphics are a part of it. Standard VESA graphic modes are f.e. 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768 and so on. On my Amiga I created an graphics mode with 420x316 pixels, this is surely not a VESA graphic mode

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2 Opteron systems: OSx86 10.5.8, Andy's 9.8.0 kernel, Asus A8N-SLI Premium, Opteron 185 o'clocked @ 2 x 2,95 GHz (2nd system 2.6 GHz), ATI Radeon HD2600XT 256MB Dual-Monitor 2x HP L2035, 4 GB RAM, Griffin FireWave as main audio device, Marvell + nForce LAN, Asus U3S6 USB3/SATA6 card, 5,5 TB harddisk, Firewire 800 card, Apple Remote + eHome IR receiver, 2x Wacom serial graphics tablet, Canon Pixma iP4700, Logitech Internet Navigator wireless keyboard/mouse combination.

My Audio stuff: M-Audio Transit USB (default audio), M-Audio ProFire 610, M-Audio ProFire Lightbridge (34 channels) using Creamware A16 ADAT converter • MIDI: M-Audio Midiman 4x MIDI interface • Behringer Audio Mixers: Xenyx 1002, Xenyx 1002FX, Xenyx 1202FX, Eurorack UB1002FX, Eurorack MX1804FX, Eurorack MX262A • FX devices: Lexicon MPX100 DSP, Behringer DSP-1000 Virtualizer, Behringer MiniFEX 800 DSP, Behringer Multicom Pro MDX4400 compressor • RETRO: MSSIAH midi/sequencer/synthesizer cardridge for the C64 (Dual-SID), Steinberg M.S.I. MIDI Interface for C64

Hi All i have the ati x1650 working using this guide http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=69345&st=0 QE/CI also working although max res is 1280 x 1024..

hope this helps

Firewalk

This is really strange...
At the beginning I installed Firewalk's guide and I came to this problem, I somehow managed to break my system and after a reformat I followed the guide again except now I can select any resolution and also there's no mouse tearing (!?)

I did exactly the same thing !
Anyway, thanks for all your help guys, maybe I didn't follow the guide well enough
http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=69345&st=0