Solution: install Kubuntu Linux. Aaaah. The laptop works again 
(ok, tomorrow i get to see how well it works at work, but that’s another story)
Aaargh. Again a Linux installation bites the dust.
Yesterday i did an apt-get update and upgrade on my laptop. Apt-get complained that there was some problem with lib-mesa-something, which has something to do with OpenGL.
In my desperation, i did an apt-get distribution reinstallation which, in retrospect, was a bad idea. At least my X-Windows did work before, but now i just get the error message /etc/X11/X is not executable.
Not good.
I thought of re-installing the whole damn Debian with kubuntu, but there’s a MS-Windows installation on the same hard disk that i don’t want to risk. It’s one of those Thinkpad-Windowsen, and apart from hosting some rather persistent spyware (nail.exe anyone?) it works.
Don’t know exactly what i’ll do just yet. It’s my work laptop so i could give it to the IT support guys, but i’d rather fsck things up so irrevocably that i simply cannot fix things before i do. Or in other words, i’ll want to try to fix it myself first.
Let’s see where that takes me. I already have another laptop with a broken Gentoo Linux that i’d like to let the IT support guys replace…
