Making me install the xorg-edgers repository would be useless. I have
already tried that, and only ppa-purge saved me from having to wipe the
entire freaking system to reinstall. I never saw any Unix system produce
a more violent crash/lockup/retry cycle than that repository did to my
machine.
I'm simply saying that it is entirely untestable on my machine, because
just running the packages in that repository on that hardware made me
think my monitor was about to blow its tube.
isn't it possible to get the old Intrepid driver working with Lucid's X
version, or has it changed too much?
Why can't you just put the Intrepid driver back into a PPA somewhere? I
was using that driver for the entire duration of Karmic and it worked
fine, but now obviously it isn't available. I know free is free, but
this is simply unusuable, and thank god it's my off-box I just use for
email and not my