OP didn't reply on what distro or hardware he's using and mentions years of posts on some mailing list about what would be a completely showstopping bug, but ne

OP didn't reply on what distro or hardware he's using and mentions years of posts on some mailing list about what would be a completely showstopping bug, but never posts a link or replies to specific questions about the issue. User error or bad hardware. Move along, nothing to see here.