[ltp] cannot start x - ThinkPad T42

[Theodore Ts'o]

On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 10:22:17AM -0500, Carlos Moffat wrote:
> > The radeon driver works fine on my T42.  I still use Xorg 6.8.2 from
> > Ubuntu Breezy.
> > 
> 
> The problem seems to be Xorg 6.9 (at least in Debian)

Indeed; I made the mistake of doing an "apt-get upgrade" a week before
leaving for linux.conf.au, and it completely destablized my system,
*and* caused the VGA output to be disabled; a problem if you're giving
a presentation at a conference!

Downgrading to 6.8.2 fixed the problem.  I'm going to be keeping a
backup copy of xserver-xorg_6.8.2.dfsg.1-11_i386.deb around for a
while until the latest Debian unstable xserver is usable again...

						- Ted