A little before X-mas, I received my laptop back from repair.
Yes, I couldn’t see it anymore stupidly laying down under a desk…And if you don’t know why I wasn’t using it, please read here and there.
That cost me some money (they had to replace the motherboard, because of these damned integrated video cards)…but much less than for a new laptop. Once back home, I directly put the Ubuntu 5.10 Install CD into the CD-Rom drive, and started its installation. Some minutes later, it was up and running, and everything (WiFi, multimedia keys, Xorg config, …) was working fine out of the box.
Here is a small screenshot: