Recently in LCD death Category

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.