Thanks to both of you. You've helped me by telling me that you can't help me.
Really, failing you telling me that you can help me, this was all I really
wanted. All the other stuff we exchanged about freedom and philosophy wasn't
at all part of my original, purely technical, question.
Sirgrant, regarding your points:
1. I'd already done some research and from what I'd seen I suspected that the
problem had not yet been solved by developers, but I wanted to find out from
other people if they had seen something I hadn't. Reasonable enough?
2. I'll take your suggestion on board. Thanks for the practical advice.
3. Freedom to hack software is something most people haven't been educated to
do. Education (or self-education) takes time and/or money. Both are in short
supply. Similarly, with regard to hiring people to do the hacking, I usually
can't afford to hire a taxi, so again it shows how far IT freedom goes when
practical considerations are taken into account.
Magic Banana, I tried the first of your suggestions, and have already told
you what happened. I'd have probably been more grateful for the suggestion if
it wasn't couched within a poorly concealed piece of conceited "holier than
though" patronisation. Regarding the GeForce 9500GT: 1) isn't that
proprietary hardware? and 2) perhaps you'd like to lend me $64, so I can join
in the happy bandwagon of freedom-not-open-source. I'd be very happy to give
you free lectures on how not to patronise new users - sort of a mutually
equal LETS exchange???
