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Are there things RockDoctor is deliberately ignoring in my OP, or am I the idiot?
"ever since I installed the (wrong) opensource video driver for my Ubuntu 9.04 & Lenovo ThinkPad T41"
seems to have completely escaped him, mentioning reinstalling proprietary drivers. I'll mention, though I strongly doubt it'll do any good, that there no proprietary drivers than the one that obviously got so bollixed by installing this wrong one that I can't recover from it. Going to a VESA xorg.conf made no difference either.
(he makes mention of "On my desktop" which proves we're talking through glass.)
"A rich man who hailed from Seattle
Wrote Windows 3.1 to do battle
And so Unix folks parry
With those who aren't wary
Enough to know it's all for CATTLE!"
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