PLEASE READ: The Latest Updates Break the Xserver!

[ChuckNH]

Originally Posted by givré What's happens if you upgrade to the latest version? sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade

after update - reading package lists...done
after upgrade -

building dependency tree...done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

I'm at a loss, but remaining patient and glad to have the community help available. Can't wait to get out of echspee, though. Thanks for your reply.

[tobyhdr]

I have followed tseliot's instructions, but it has not solved the problem.

I have a Siemens Lifebook, but am not sure as the the graphics card, except that it must be an ATI Radeon judging from the output fromXorg.0.log:

(II) ATI: Candidate "Device" section "ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE]".
(EE) No devices detected.

After upgrading xorg-core to 10.4 and verifying its existence with aptitude, I searched for what drivers I might have. I then removed and reinstalled xserver-xorg-driver-ati AND xserver-xorg-driver-atimisc, was told by apt-get the actions hade been successful, but nevertheless X still fails with the above error message.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I do not want to reinstall.

Cheers

Toby

[MKR.]

Originally Posted by tobyhdr I have followed tseliot's instructions, but it has not solved the problem. I have a Siemens Lifebook, but am not sure as the the graphics card, except that it must be an ATI Radeon judging from the output fromXorg.0.log: (II) ATI: Candidate "Device" section "ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE]". (EE) No devices detected. After upgrading xorg-core to 10.4 and verifying its existence with aptitude, I searched for what drivers I might have. I then removed and reinstalled xserver-xorg-driver-ati AND xserver-xorg-driver-atimisc, was told by apt-get the actions hade been successful, but nevertheless X still fails with the above error message. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I do not want to reinstall. Cheers Toby

With proprietary drivers, there's usualy a command you have to run to make it work. Check the package description (use aptitude [like synaptic, but less refined, and works on the CLI] if you don't have another functional linux box available to check with).

[jayfish]

Originally Posted by Dale61 ...which means there will be a dozen less pc's converting to Ubuntu. May not sound like a lot, but he will tell others, and so, it will travel down the line. ...My apologies for such a harsh first post, but as I came within a bulls' roar of ditching DD and going back to Windoze, I just needed to vent.

Good post. I’ve been a Windows user for 17 years and in the past two or three I have been looking for an excuse to switch over to alternative OS. In the past 6 months I have been really cramming the distros in there(must be around ten). All of the distros I have tried have been somewhat underwhelming until I tried Ubuntu. I was really digging it. I even went to the point of forcing my wife to use U. If she needed anything from her Windows box she could use RDP to access it. Then this little SNAFU reared its’ ugly head. Luckily for me I found the fix rather quickly, but since all kinds of other issues have begun to pop up. I just don't think Linux is ready for prime-time yet. It reminds me a lot of Windows 3.x through ME, a marginal GUI running on top of a character driven OS. It's too much work for to little reward. I'll still play around with Linux but I've connected my wife’s PC back up to its' keyboard, monitor and mouse. Better luck next release I guess.

Jay

[spockrock]

http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubu...allation_Guide

here is a wiki on installing radeon drivers on dapper.

[moephan]

This fix worked perfectly for me. I had no gui for about 5 minutes total. Also, I didn't lose any data or anything. The support that comes with Ubuntu, which is itself free, makes Ubuntu an incredible value.

Stuff like this happens, even to big companies like Sun and Microsoft.

[funchords]

Originally Posted by tobyhdr I have followed tseliot's instructions, but it has not solved the problem. I have a Siemens Lifebook, but am not sure as the the graphics card, except that it must be an ATI Radeon judging from the output fromXorg.0.log: (II) ATI: Candidate "Device" section "ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE]". (EE) No devices detected. After upgrading xorg-core to 10.4 and verifying its existence with aptitude, I searched for what drivers I might have. I then removed and reinstalled xserver-xorg-driver-ati AND xserver-xorg-driver-atimisc, was told by apt-get the actions hade been successful, but nevertheless X still fails with the above error message. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I do not want to reinstall. Cheers Toby

Toby,

When I read the bug report for "the incident," the buggy behavior in xorg-core 10.3 caused "ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE]" to be listed in error.

Since you have 10.4 and are still having this problem, you probably have bad info in your xorg.conf.

1. Go to /etc/X11 ... cd /etc/X11
2. Copy the current copy to a safe name .... sudo cp xorg.conf xorg.conf-badbadbad
3. look for prior copies of xorg.conf and use it to restore ... sudo cp xorg.conf-20060731 xorg.conf
4. reboot ... sudo reboot

If you don't have a prior copy (in step 3), there's a command you can use to recreate it. Someone else, please provide that command -- because I cannot find it right away. Everyone knows it, except for me.

HTH

[BerlinOliver]

Hi,

I just updated to 10.4 but now my problems are starting.

1) synaptic shows an error when installing new software.

X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 157 Major opcode: 146 Minor opcode: 3 Resource id: 0x0 Failed to open device X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 157 Major opcode: 146 Minor opcode: 3 Resource id: 0x0 Failed to open device

2. I reinstalled my nVidia drivers, but glxgears says:

Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual

Can you please help me?

[tomski]

Firstly i must appollogise for my earlier post.. i was in a bit of a bad mood & i am deeply sorry for ranting, i now understand im complaining about something that is free.

Humans do & will make errors

The Problem:

I have followed tselliot's instructions but it seems i have lost GDM, when i start up all i get is the login prompt with black screen.
Which then i have to type:

startx

I know it's not much of a problem but it is not as it was before,
What has changed?

Corrective Actions taken so far:

I have tried to reinstall ati drivers from repo & ati site, i also reinstalled resricted modules for my current running kernel before the drivers each time.
No joy.
I then tried to reinstall ubuntu-desktop, but strangely when apt-get did this it just replaced 48kb of files?????
Reboot.
no joy.
login.
startx.
fired up synaptic reinstalled GDM
no joy.

At this point i could check which files have root/user permissions, but i have no idea what files to check & what permisions these files need!

I am lost & out of my depth & as well as that my legs have got cramp from treading water for too long!!
but i am still reluctant to return to windows

please help

Quick tip:
You don't need to reboot, try:

telinit 1

this will send all process the TERM signal!! & drop to single user then go straight to runlevel 2

[jayfish]

Originally Posted by tomski ....i now understand im complaining about something that is free.

Bull, you have every right to complain, and you should, whether it's free or not. These are the same snobbish folks who will extol the virtues of Linux, to a non-Linux user, to the point of beratement. Now when it busts a cog they have the audacity to say you can't complain? Ya know what, air is free too but when it makes you sick to breath it you bet your *ss I'm gonna complain.

Jay