kennyrogersjr
April 13th, 2009, 11:39 PM
Hello all,
I recently upgraded from 8.04 to 8.10. Here is my system information:
Mobo: Striker Extreme
CPU: Intel Q6600
Ram: 2 GB
Video: 2x Nvidia 8600 GT
Monitor: Plug & Play: Westinghouse 20.1"
Situation:
I updated my system before running the upgrade. I let the update manager do it's thing. I came back and it had trouble writing some "tmp" files. I had this issue on another computer that it worked on, so I agreed and didn't record the info (stupid).
It failed about 25% through installing the upgrade. I tried to get into the apt-get gui windows and through terminals without luck.
Mistake number two, I rebooted. I had several disk write errors and I had to run fsck several times.
When it rebooted again, I logged in and started finishing the upgrade by running the apt-get program again. I installed everything. I have no packages left to install. I reinstalled compiz, nvidia-glx-new, gdm, ubuntu-desktop, xdm (i don't use it), etc. I even uninstalled the nvidia 177 drivers and installed the 180. No luck.
I have no GUI! LOL. I have all my terminals and no F7 :(
If anybody is willing to help me troubleshoot this, I'd be most grateful! I'll provide any output you guys need to help me on this endeavor.
Thanks,
Ken
I'm sorry that I fixed this before anybody could help. I know that some of you like a good puzzle, like me. Too bad I cheated by using the internet for ways to fix X11. My results are below. Please go to this link so you know the background for what I did to my computer: Here (http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090111005211AA5zQwq)
Please, understand that I have two video cards. The problem I ran into was the fact that my xorg.conf file didn't have a Busid associated with the Section "Device". Here is what my final xorg.conf file looked like, pay close attention to the Section "Device" area.
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder58) Wed Nov 26 11:21:13 PST 2008
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection
Section "Files"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 28.0 - 33.0
VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Busid "PCI:1:0:0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Cheers, as always.
Ken
I recently upgraded from 8.04 to 8.10. Here is my system information:
Mobo: Striker Extreme
CPU: Intel Q6600
Ram: 2 GB
Video: 2x Nvidia 8600 GT
Monitor: Plug & Play: Westinghouse 20.1"
Situation:
I updated my system before running the upgrade. I let the update manager do it's thing. I came back and it had trouble writing some "tmp" files. I had this issue on another computer that it worked on, so I agreed and didn't record the info (stupid).
It failed about 25% through installing the upgrade. I tried to get into the apt-get gui windows and through terminals without luck.
Mistake number two, I rebooted. I had several disk write errors and I had to run fsck several times.
When it rebooted again, I logged in and started finishing the upgrade by running the apt-get program again. I installed everything. I have no packages left to install. I reinstalled compiz, nvidia-glx-new, gdm, ubuntu-desktop, xdm (i don't use it), etc. I even uninstalled the nvidia 177 drivers and installed the 180. No luck.
I have no GUI! LOL. I have all my terminals and no F7 :(
If anybody is willing to help me troubleshoot this, I'd be most grateful! I'll provide any output you guys need to help me on this endeavor.
Thanks,
Ken
I'm sorry that I fixed this before anybody could help. I know that some of you like a good puzzle, like me. Too bad I cheated by using the internet for ways to fix X11. My results are below. Please go to this link so you know the background for what I did to my computer: Here (http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090111005211AA5zQwq)
Please, understand that I have two video cards. The problem I ran into was the fact that my xorg.conf file didn't have a Busid associated with the Section "Device". Here is what my final xorg.conf file looked like, pay close attention to the Section "Device" area.
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder58) Wed Nov 26 11:21:13 PST 2008
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection
Section "Files"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 28.0 - 33.0
VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Busid "PCI:1:0:0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Cheers, as always.
Ken