Hi there

Just messed up my daughters HP Compaq NC8000 laptop, which was working like a charm running 8.04; did a straight forward and seemingly successful upgrade from 8.04 to 8.10, but something went wrong with the graphics. And being somewhat a "noob" and having proudly avoided CLI so far, I need some assistance on this. I did some searching, but did not find any real solution yet.

Using 8.04, everything worked perfectly, but upgrading to 8.10, I got just got full-screen terminal and a login prompt (very much like this posting: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=966190).

Fiddling a little, status right now, when booting, is that I get this message:

Ubuntu is running in low-graphics mode

Your screen, graphics card, and input device settings
could not be detected correctly. You will need to
configure these yourself.

[OK]


When going through the following dialogs and menus I can see that xorg.conf is "generically empty":

Code:
Section "Device"
	Identifier	"Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Default Screen"
	Monitor		"Configured Monitor"
	Device		"Configured Video Device"
EndSection
This was not the case with 8.04:

Code:
Section "Files"
	Fontpath	"/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc"
	Fontpath	"/usr/share/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
	Fontpath	"/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
	Fontpath	"/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
	Fontpath	"/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1"
	Fontpath	"/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi"
	Fontpath	"/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi"
	Fontpath	"/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
	# path to defoma fonts
	Fontpath	"/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
EndSection

Section "Module"
	Load		"i2c"
	Load		"bitmap"
	Load		"ddc"
	Load		"dri"
	Load		"extmod"
	Load		"freetype"
	Load		"glx"
	Load		"int10"
	Load		"type1"
	Load		"vbe"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Generic Keyboard"
	Driver		"kbd"
	Option		"CoreKeyboard"
	Option		"XkbRules"	"xorg"
	Option		"XkbModel"	"pc105"
	Option		"XkbLayout"	"dk"
	Option		"XkbOptions"	"lv3:ralt_switch"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Configured Mouse"
	Driver		"mouse"
	Option		"CorePointer"
	Option		"Device"	"/dev/input/mice"
	Option		"Protocol"	"ExplorerPS/2"
	Option		"ZAxisMapping"	"4 5"
	Option		"Emulate3Buttons"	"true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Synaptics Touchpad"
	Driver		"synaptics"
	Option		"SendCoreEvents"	"true"
	Option		"Device"	"/dev/psaux"
	Option		"Protocol"	"auto-dev"
	Option		"HorizScrollDelta"	"0"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Driver		"wacom"
	Identifier	"stylus"
	Option		"Device"	"/dev/wacom"# Change to 
	Option		"Type"	"stylus"
	Option		"ForceDevice"	"ISDV4"# Tablet PC ONLY
	# /dev/input/event
	# for USB
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Driver		"wacom"
	Identifier	"eraser"
	Option		"Device"	"/dev/wacom"# Change to 
	Option		"Type"	"eraser"
	Option		"ForceDevice"	"ISDV4"# Tablet PC ONLY
	# /dev/input/event
	# for USB
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Driver		"wacom"
	Identifier	"cursor"
	Option		"Device"	"/dev/wacom"# Change to 
	Option		"Type"	"cursor"
	Option		"ForceDevice"	"ISDV4"# Tablet PC ONLY
	# /dev/input/event
	# for USB
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier	"ATI Technologies, Inc. RV350 NP [Mobility Radeon 9600/9700 M10/M11]"
	Driver		"fglrx"
	Busid		"PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"Generic Monitor"
	Option		"DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Default Screen"
	Device		"ATI Technologies, Inc. RV350 NP [Mobility Radeon 9600/9700 M10/M11]"
	Monitor		"Generic Monitor"
	Defaultdepth	24
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth	1
		Modes		"1024x768"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth	4
		Modes		"1024x768"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth	8
		Modes		"1024x768"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth	15
		Modes		"1024x768"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth	16
		Modes		"1024x768"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth	24
		Modes		"1024x768"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier	"Default Layout"
  screen "Default Screen"
	Inputdevice	"Generic Keyboard"
	Inputdevice	"Configured Mouse"
	Inputdevice	"stylus"	"SendCoreEvents"
	Inputdevice	"cursor"	"SendCoreEvents"
	Inputdevice	"eraser"	"SendCoreEvents"
	Inputdevice	"Synaptics Touchpad"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
	Mode	0666
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
	Option		"Composite"	"0"
EndSection
I have tried to copy old xorg.conf information in to my new xorg.conf, but I did not really have much success with this.

And looking into Xorg.0.log it looks like the "failsafe" version of xorg.conf is being used:

Code:
...
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sat Nov  1 14:08:13 2008
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.failsafe"
(==) No Layout section.  Using the first Screen section.
(**) |-->Screen "Default Screen" (0)
(**) |   |-->Monitor "Configured Monitor"
(**) |   |-->Device "Configured Video Device"
(==) Automatically adding devices
(==) Automatically enabling devices
...
Any point in posting the entire file?

Any ideas on what went wrong? Please help, my daughter will be back in a few hours! There will be no mercy...