In my endless quest to make all the features of this ATI RS780-based HP laptop work completely with Debian GNU/Linux, I have come to great lengths. In summary, I have:

• Learned to use X.org modules from their upstream repositories and keep them always up-to-date, commit by commit;
• Patched the ACPI DSDT to gain thermal zone readings on Linux;
• Blown up the X server with ATI's crappy proprietary driver, fglrx;
• Nuked shared libraries in /usr/lib after attempting to use an RC Linux kernel version from mainline; and
• Upgraded Debian Lenny (stable) to Debian Squeeze (current testing distribution) and acquired superpowers involving the manipulation of time learned to use Tux-On-Ice.

Other people would have given up very quickly and sticked with Windows Vista, but no, here I am, spending time researching the problems in detail and running fsck after every forced reboot and reporting back to my Lair.

Fortunately, now I can see the light at the end of this very convoluted dark... tunnel thingy, and I have finally found the solution for one of the problems I have long sought to solve: the lack of accelerated 3D rendering.