My shop box has no users!

Thu Feb 3 23:00:51 UTC 2011

On Donnerstag 03 Februar 2011, 23:31:22, gene heskett wrote:
> On Thursday, February 03, 2011 05:07:30 pm reini did opine:

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> Now what?  This all, videowise, worked until I updated the box about a week
> or 10 days ago.  The end of the Xorg.0.log:
> 
> (II) VESA: driver for VESA chipsets: vesa
> (II) Primary Device is: PCI 01 at 00:00:0
> (EE) VESA: Kernel modesetting driver in use, refusing to load

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This is due to all that new modesetting stuff happening in the kernel.

You want the nomodeset option:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1613132

From what I read that option will be removed at some point in time, so I'm not 
sure what will happen then...

  --Reinhold