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Long story short: after a reboot, everything is working again just as it should.

I tried powering the KVM off and on again, BTW. Apart from disabling the mouse so I had to unplug and replug it, and made no difference.

I hadn't updated this thread with a description of what happened next, because although things got working again, I really don't understand how or why.

I sent the PC back to the manufacturer, they...

Well, things are much worse now, after I almost felt I'd solved it.
I've gone from an almost working system to one where I can't see a single pixel output at any time, and can't boot the system up....

If you don't know what I mean by BIOS, I'm not sure how to explain it. It's the text that's displayed when the PC is powered on, before the boot loader starts. There will always be an option to...

I have got myself into a situation where I see nothing during boot until X starts, and I have no text virtual consoles.

I recently replaced my old 9.10 system running on hardware that seemed to be...

I had the same problem. Elsewhere I found a message about (temporarily) starting Firestarter by doing something like dbus-launch firestart, which worked. Still didn't allow it to start normally (I...

I've just setup a new machine, in an unusual way (to avoid having to reinstall hundreds of packages and configure all the mail and samba and print etc. etc. again), by doing something risky:

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Well, holding the Alt key down and clicking on the panel allows me to drag it to the other monitor. Ditto for the dock.

Hmm, another crash, this time when playing with gnome-display-properties. (The LCD frequency was set to 59.9Hz, which seemed strange, so I selected 60Hz from the menu, clicked Apply, the screen...

Some more googling (looking for "default connected" and xrandr) lead me to reports that the nv driver doesn't fully support randr. That xrandr doesn't report a useful error message when it's talking...

I used to use nvidia and Twinview to drive an LCD and CRT monitor as one big area. I've changed over to using the nv driver, and I gather that xinerama is deprecated now in favour of xrandr. But I...

Well, no crash after 8 mins, a new record, by a long margin.
Looks like the bug is definitely in the nvidia glx 175 series driver.

Okay, that quickly crashed, too. Looks like it's the old 175 series nvidia driver (I've played a video that makes a crash on my desktop on a netbook running 9.10 and Intel's poulsbo driver, and that...

Well, that didn't take long, it crashed playing a downloaded video
(so it's not network-related).
Maybe one more try, with maxcpus=1.

I searched all the forums and tried lots of plausible tricks, but eventually I had to believe the error messages flagged by "NVRM:" in /var/log/messages, that laid it out quite clearly that my nvidia...

I had lock-ups of X after installing the poulsbo (gma500) driver, before installing evtouch. I've also had some lock-ups after installing evtouch. I haven't noticed any correlation between touch...

I followed your tip, and it basically worked fine, but the kamoso window doesn't seem to be resizable, which makes it very tricky to operate - if you visit the website and watch the video, you'll be...

Can I ask a dumb question?

The graphics driver is working well.
The touchscreen is working very well too, after I managed to calibrate it.

(Tip: on the EeePC T91, you have to run...

I started posting this, because I was having the same problem, but I've found how to workaround the problem pretty easily.

I'm running Ubuntu netbook remix 9.10, with the GMA500 graphics driver...

I've installed Ubuntu netbook remix 9.10 on an Asus T91.

I've got it working now, but there were problems, and I'm recording them here as best I can remember, in the hope it's helpful to someone...