Excellent, thank you!

Really? Is that so? That'd be extremely helpful... Thanks! Vesa looks rather awful, but it works and is tolerable. I assume I'll want to use the standard Xorg.conf with this new driver?

firstly, shouldn't that be
cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf-vesa > /etc/X11/xorg.conf && startx

I did look at the results of my proprietary driver install, but didn't save any output, just glanced at it,...

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