It works.

Suspend to RAM appears to be broken (but I haven’t tested that in ages, so might have been broken anyway), but other than that, I’m now running with a custom 2.6.33.3 kernel with KMS enabled on my old Aspire 5021 (Radeon Mobility X700), and it appears to be ok (it can be a bit flaky the first time you enable it – a few cold boots cured that one).

For the interested among you, this is the small “upgrade” my main box got this week:

AMD Athlon X2 5600+
Abit KN9 motherboard
2GB GeIL RAM
Akasa 80+ 500W PSU
nVidia GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB

22″ widescreen LG LCD monitor

Coming Soon: Creative Audigy 2 ZS Notebook (when the PCMCIA-to-PCI converter arrives)