I think I covered the GART issue, thanks to Mario. ATI seems to be the
working driver.

wrt GART, dmesg now says "[ 4257.182285] [drm] Setting GART location
based on new memory map"

But the regular GUI is still elusive. I am able to get into
failsafe-Gnome. I have run 'apt-get update' and 'apt-get upgrade' over
and over until there is nothing left to upgrade. I am grepping logs all
over for what appears to be an xsession message when I try regular Gnome
- the dialog flashes right after authentication and then screen goes
black with a black 'x' for a cursor and no alternate session resaponds.
Basically, the laptop is rendered useless until I resolve this.

I appreciate any advice.
> On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 22:17 -0500, Gregory Zill wrote:
>  
>> [  61.584105] [fglrx] GART Table is not in FRAME_BUFFER range
>>  
>
> Looks suspiciously like Google hot #1 for the above quote [1], but there
> is no resolution there. In your case, the completely black screen
> probably comes from the fact that Hardy is trying to run the
> Compiz-composited desktop.
>
> If you google "GART Table is not in FRAME_BUFFER range", there are lots
> of other of hits. Maybe some of them explain how to make your fglrx
> driver work.
>
> Otherwise, you should ssh into the machine and change the "fglrx"
> in /etc/X11/xorg.conf into "ati". This should prevent Compiz from
> running and you should at least get a screen.
>
> [1]
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/ubuntu-63/black-window-or-screen-in-3d-applications-ubuntu-7.10-ati-x800-proppietary-drivers-613163/
>
>
>
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