Comment 68 for bug 282387

Not to "beat a dead horse", but the patch (preinit.diff) and process described by Niklas Vanhainen on 2008-11-03 worked (exactly as described) for me on:

Lenovo ThinkPad T61 (type 6465-CTO)
uname -a: "Linux <hostname> 2.6.27-8-server #1 SMP Thu Nov 6 18:18:16 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux"

dpkg -l xserver-xorg\* | fgrep ii | head -n 5
ii xserver-xorg 1:7.4~5ubuntu3 the X.Org X server
ii xserver-xorg-core 2:1.5.2-2ubuntu3 Xorg X server - core server
ii xserver-xorg-dev 2:1.5.2-2ubuntu3 Xorg X server - development files
ii xserver-xorg-input-all 1:7.4~5ubuntu3 the X.Org X server -- input driver metapacka
ii xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.0.99+git20080912-0ubuntu6 X.Org X server -- evdev input driver

Thanks for all the help!

 -David Klann