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[MrMacman2u <647488@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Not sure what you might have wrong here, I also have a T42 Thinkpad and
have become a "casual expert" on the glitches and inconsistencies of the
radeon driver and the 7500 Mobility because when I reinstall or dist
upgrade, something breaks to some extent or another (performance
regressions, not suspending during system sleep, KMS issues, agp mode
breaking and falling back to 1x, XAA being used instead of EXA, etc...)
I've had to wrestle with it every. single. time.

Regardless, KMS seems to be working for me with no trouble (currently),
and I've been running Maverick since Alpha 2.

If "nomodeset" is working, I'm guessing you've built an xorg.conf file?
If you have, try removing that (backups are good) first.

If that fails try the solution in the comments here:
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-
ati/+bug/641525

Maybe one day the 7500 in the T42 wil work correctly with an out of the
box Ubuntu install, but that day is not today ;)

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