Well, to my amazement, I still had the documentation from when I purchased my laptop. I usually keep things like that, but I thought it got misplaced when I moved about 5 years ago.
My video card details:
ATI Mobility Radeon 7000 Series (IGP 345M)
*Not to be confused with a slightly different model, the Radeon 7000 IGP*
Note: My laptop is of the "desktop replacement" variety. It is very heavy, and uses a desktop mobo with a P4 Desktop CPU in "portability mode" (essentially underclocked to reduce energy usage), rather than an actual Mobile CPU. It gets rather hot under full power, especially in its old age...
So, I have answered one of my three questions. Two still remain. I am not afraid of using command line options, but after 20 years of troubleshooting only Windows / DOS, I'm not sure where to begin with Ubuntu / Linux. I've been using it here and there since Hardy, but I've never encountered any problems until now.
How would I go about disabling KMS by using the "radeon.modeset=0" option?
Is there a proprietary ATI driver that I could install?
Thanks to everyone for your help so far!
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