[nmglug] lost xserver upon upgrade

[Brian O'Keefe]

I'm hoping someone can help me out here. I'm going to include my posts 
to the Ubuntu forums. I'm running Ubuntu on my powerbook and after 
upgrading to the latest Beta version I have no xserver. Please read and 
all help would be welcome!

  read that it was best to do:
  sudo apt-get upgrade
  to avoid removing lots of installed packages that I've added to 
breezy. Synaptic wanted to remove them and so did a dist upgrade 
command so i did the "apt-get upgrade". Got a prompt in the panel to 
restart. I did and now no Xserver starts. I get a message to check the 
Xserver info and I did but that doesn't seem helpful-just version 6.8.2 
installed.
  If I run "sudo apt-get upgrade xserver-xorg", apt-get want s to remove 
all of my KDE packages )I'm running Ubuntu) and a bunch of X11 stuff 
to. It will install and upgrade many xserver- packages. Is this the way 
to go and then just reinstall the KDE packages? Is there another way 
around this?

Well I did the "apt-get install xserver-xorg" and even though a bunch 
of packages were removed and installed/upgraded I have the same 
problem. I checked the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file and came up with 
errors. This is at the end of the file:

  (II) LoadModule: "ati"
  (WW) Warning, couldn't open module ati
  (II) UnloadModule: "ati"
  (EE) Failed to load module "ati" (module does not exist, 0)
  (II) LoadModule: "kbd"
  (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/kbd_drv.so
  (II) Module kbd: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
  compiled for 7.0.0, module version = 1.0.1
  Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
  ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 0.5
  (II) LoadModule: "mouse"
  (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/mouse_drv.so
  (II) Module mouse: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
  compiled for 6.99.99.904, module version = 1.0.3
  Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
  ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 0.5
  (II) LoadModule: "synaptics"
  (WW) Warning, couldn't open module synaptics
  (II) UnloadModule: "synaptics"
  (EE) Failed to load module "synaptics" (module does not exist, 0)
  (EE) No drivers available.

  Fatal server error:
  no screens found

I should have mentioned that I'm on a Powerbook G4.
  I found this in the archives but it makes no sense to me-what bold 
section?:
  Why do so difficult: This is what I did when I encountered this 
problem.

  "When you get the blank screen just do <ctrl><alt>F1

  login.

  type
  sudo nano -w /etc/X11/xorg.conf

  find this section:
  Section "Device"
  Identifier "ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon Mobility X700 (RV410 PCIE)"
  Driver "fglrx"
  BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
  Option "monitorlayout" "LVDS,TMDS"
  EndSection

  just add the section that is bold.

  BTW This is the fifth time i write this little howto on ubuntuforums, 
you clould have found it yourself."


  I tried "sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg" to no avail
I'm hoping someone can help me out here. I'm going to include my posts
to the Ubuntu forums. I'm running Ubuntu on my powerbook and after
upgrading to the latest Beta version I have no xserver. Please read
and all help would be welcome!


<fontfamily><param>Verdana</param><smaller> read that it was best to
do:

 sudo apt-get upgrade

 to avoid removing lots of installed packages that I've added to
breezy. Synaptic wanted to remove them and so did a dist upgrade
command so i did the "apt-get upgrade". Got a prompt in the panel to
restart. I did and now no Xserver starts. I get a message to check the
Xserver info and I did but that doesn't seem helpful-just version
6.8.2 installed.

 If I run "sudo apt-get upgrade xserver-xorg", apt-get want s to
remove all of my KDE packages )I'm running Ubuntu) and a bunch of X11
stuff to. It will install and upgrade many xserver- packages. Is this
the way to go and then just reinstall the KDE packages? Is there
another way around this?


Well I did the "apt-get install xserver-xorg" and even though a bunch
of packages were removed and installed/upgraded I have the same
problem. I checked the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file and came up with
errors. This is at the end of the file:


 (II) LoadModule: "ati"

 (WW) Warning, couldn't open module ati

 (II) UnloadModule: "ati"

 (EE) Failed to load module "ati" (module does not exist, 0)

 (II) LoadModule: "kbd"

 (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/kbd_drv.so

 (II) Module kbd: vendor="X.Org Foundation"

 compiled for 7.0.0, module version = 1.0.1

 Module class: X.Org XInput Driver

 ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 0.5

 (II) LoadModule: "mouse"

 (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/mouse_drv.so

 (II) Module mouse: vendor="X.Org Foundation"

 compiled for 6.99.99.904, module version = 1.0.3

 Module class: X.Org XInput Driver

 ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 0.5

 (II) LoadModule: "synaptics"

 (WW) Warning, couldn't open module synaptics

 (II) UnloadModule: "synaptics"

 (EE) Failed to load module "synaptics" (module does not exist, 0)

 (EE) No drivers available.


 Fatal server error:

 no screens found


I should have mentioned that I'm on a Powerbook G4.

 I found this in the archives but it makes no sense to me-what bold
section?:

 Why do so difficult: This is what I did when I encountered this
problem.


<italic> "When you get the blank screen just do <<ctrl><<alt>F1


 login.


 type 

 sudo nano -w /etc/X11/xorg.conf


 find this section:

 Section "Device"

 Identifier "ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon Mobility X700 (RV410 PCIE)"

 Driver "fglrx"

 BusID "PCI:1:0:0"

 Option "monitorlayout" "LVDS,TMDS"

 EndSection


 just add the section that is bold.


 BTW This is the fifth time i write this little howto on ubuntuforums,
you clould have found it yourself."



 I tried "sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg" to no
avail.