I believe these sort of problems have been fixed in later X.org releases (and thus later Ubuntu releases) on Radeon 7000 series.
** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu)
Status: Needs Info => Fix Released
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live cd chooses wrong video settings for Radeon 7000
https://launchpad.net/bugs/27204
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