Ubuntu Karmic fail update: Screensaver does OK ... then it doesn't, but laptop dying of its own accord
My issue with X in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic), in which my Toshiba Satellite 1100-S101 laptop does OK with the screensaver during short intervals but won't wouldn't return to life even with my newly acquired ctrl-alt-backspace ability continues.
But in an unrelated hardware-death spiral, the LCD screen has developed a large black blotch and tear, from which 1-pixel colored (blue, yellow, reddish, purplish) vertical lines emanate on top, with thicker, mostly black and white lines, sprouting below (see the blurry cellphone-camera image above).
I do have a second Toshiba 1100 laptop (running encrypted Debian Lenny) which has no sound and what appears to be a spotty inverter supplying voltage to its own screen, which does work.
If I can manage to crack the case on both laptops and swap screens, I might have a full working screen again. As it is, I had to move the Workplace Switcher and Trash Applet more than a little bit to the left in the lower GNOME panel so I could actually see them.
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"If I can manage to crack the case on both laptops..."
I found this site helpful. It did not list the particular model I had - but I was able to find something close enough,
http://www.irisvista.com/tech/
Laptops are just so damn flimsy. They're barely designed to be easily put together -- and most definitely not designed to be taken apart (and reassembled after that).
I've marveled continually that an item selling for $500-$1,000 is really not designed or meant to be repaired, just replaced.
The unwritten assumption is that when it's under warranty the manufacturer will replace a laptop, but after that you pretty much have to junk it if anything major (and often even something minor) goes wrong because these machines are so hard to repair.