I have a IBM Thinkpad T42 with an ATI card. I edited the grub.cfg file by hand to remove the offending lines from within a Live session. I then fixed the defaults and updated grub file per the instructions above. It was still fixed after a reboot.
Here is the info from lspci:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10] [1002:4e50]
Subsystem: IBM Device [1014:0550]
Flags: bus master, fast Back2Back, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 66, IRQ 11
Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
I/O ports at 3000 [size=256]
Memory at c0100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at c0120000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [58] AGP version 2.0
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Kernel modules: radeon, radeonfb
I have a IBM Thinkpad T42 with an ATI card. I edited the grub.cfg file by hand to remove the offending lines from within a Live session. I then fixed the defaults and updated grub file per the instructions above. It was still fixed after a reboot.
Here is the info from lspci:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10] [1002:4e50]
Subsystem: IBM Device [1014:0550]
Flags: bus master, fast Back2Back, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 66, IRQ 11
Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
I/O ports at 3000 [size=256]
Memory at c0100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at c0120000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [58] AGP version 2.0
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Kernel modules: radeon, radeonfb