My chip turned out to be a Geforce 7025, and once the restricted drivers were installed after using this work around, everything was gravy, no other video problems to write home about. But my problem perfectly matched what was described in this bug report. I am not sure I would have been able to use the graphical install if I made these changes in the live cd system, I did the alternate install and changed the config file in the running system.
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