Ooops….
As the upgrade to Gutsy was so successful and I have Compiz working fine on my main PC, I thought I would give it a go on my laptop….. Lots of huffing and puffing with the various options and not a glint of cube goodness… Seems that I have a fairly poor driver loaded and thats why Compiz won’t work. So a quick google led me to Envy. So I tried that….. and destroyed my xorg config file. On reboot, I was dumped at the command line and given the suggestion to download a certain config file…..but the network was not working now!!!
More huffing and puffing and then I realised that the reason the wireless network wasn’t working was that I hadn’t entered a password. But I was unsure how to enter this password at the command line so I plugged the ethernet cable and tried so more……. More failure but at least I am now getting a viable xorg config. Seems the work on the more robust xorg settings is working.
Thing is, I have now fixed my problem but am unsure as to what I have exactly done. Each time I made a change and tested the settings, they worked but they did not seemed to then get saved. I think my problem was with the Vesa driver.