That's your lshw output isn't it, dear?
Do you have a /etc/X11/XF86Config file? If yes, could you post the contents as well, or that of an equivalent xorg.conf if you have one.
This might be risky, but you could add a Debian mirror to your sources list, and have it point to its unstable branch, and then upgrade your xorg and video drivers, but it could break everything further, so I advice against it, but it is an option. I'm not quite sure how Ubuntu configures Apt these days, but you might have to do some apt-pinning if you do upgrade xorg via Debian Unstable sources, since it might default back to downgrading the Ubuntu 9.10 version on the next update/upgrade.
Also, it looks like a AMD-Turion laptop with an ATI gfx chipset that shares your physical memory. If that's true, than you initial attempt at getting the mesa stack working would have obviously failed since mesa is for Intel chipsets, which your laptop's motherboard most probably does not have. AMD systems usually don't have any Intel graphics/wireless/controller chipsets on board, whether desktop or laptop, as far as I know.
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As for ScrotWM, I only started when my GDM + GDE + drivers broke. Decided its time for a new adventure in Linux (eventhough my iptables transparent firewall isn't ready). So far I'm really liking Scrot + dwm although I haven't really found the line that separates the two. And I still haven't figured out how to customize it.
I think howtoforge has/had some good articles on iptables... you might want to check em out in future.
I think I once posted a 'template' scrotwm.conf file somewhere on these forums, which members liek Acid_RuleZ sorta liked (I hope). I could help you make a simple one as a starting point if you want. Also have some old DWM config.h files, though these were for very specialized behavious, so I doubt a DWM-virgin would find wm useful. I could also cook-up a template DWM config for you, but it might take some time, as I've been a bit out of touch with it.
ScrotWM and DWM have a similar feel to them, but Scrot (imho) is much more sensible. It's also a tad faster (noticeable only on old hardware prolly, I doubt there'll be a difference on a modern multi-core processor) and doesn't require you to recompile everytime you change the config file like you need to for DWM. They're both written in C mostly, but Scrot is configured in plain human syntax (English), while DWM is configured in C. DWM has been around longer, so it's better on the stability front, and there are a lot of patches available that give specialized tiling layouts like a spiralled or Fibonacci sequence inspired view. There are also special forks of it like the
Dwm-Sprinkles mod. I personally prefer ScrotWM for my tiling (I was a long time DWM user, even contributed patches directly to Suckless) these days, since it's all I need. I might be a tad biased, since ScrotWM is originally BSD based, and I'm a long time user of Free and Open BSD. BSD apps tend to be higher quality than Linux projects, in my experience. Just compare BSD manuals next to Linux man pages side-by-side and you'll understand.
Other tilers you might want to look at are Musca (another favourite of mine), Xmonad (if you like Haskell), WMFS (window manager from scratch), AwesomeWM (awfulWM in my opinion, but lots of people like it), Wmii (DWM's big sister) and Subtle (requires Ruby)
I wouldn't recommend you install a tiling WM and use it as your primary, since there's usually a learning curve involved. A perfect compromise would be a lightweight stacking/floating WM like Openbox or Fluxbox, or if you want a DE then maybe Xfce, and then a tilingWM that doesn't require a lot of dependencies, like DWM, Wmii or ScrotWM...and then you switch between them via GDM, Slim or xinitrc, depending on what work you wanna do.
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Distro-wise, I want to move to something that will is just install + 1st configuration and then forget. This lappy has waaaaay to much sensitive data. I like the idea of Debian or Crunchbang. I've been looking at both (also i haz preference for apt).
If it's Debian, I personally do a netinstall or start from
GRML, but that might not be your thing.
If it's apt, Crunchbang (either the Openbox or Xfce version) might be a good fit for you. It should have most codecs out of the box, plus it has an awesome "CB-Welcome-Script" that runs the first time you boot into it after a HD install, where it asks you if you want additional apps/libs/daemons like, O.Office, samba, dev-tools...etc. Plus, it defaults to Squeeze which is more reliable than most things. You can upgrade to testing or Sid later to make it a rolling-release, at the expense of some stability.
Another good candidate would be Linux Mint Debian (LMDE) which is based on Debian Testing. It's your typical Mint Gnome environment in terms of feel, which most Ubuntu users will find familiar, I think.
Only thing I'm a bit worried about with regards to your hardware and Debian is your ATI gfx chipset. I can't say I'm that familiar with ATI, but some people have had problems with various cards. I guess it's sorta like dying your hair ... you won't know until you try for yourself.
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