Warty -> Hoary upgrade, X11 fails.

Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Mon Jan 31 11:31:35 CST 2005


On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 08:52:14AM -0800, George Farris wrote:

> Just tried a Warty to Hoary upgrade and X failed miserably.
> The machine in question has an Intel 865 chip setup.  While X worked
> fine under Warty after the upgrade X only works at 800x600 and 53Hz, at
> most.  I have tried a dpkg-reconfigure and it seems to run fine, chooses
> the i810 driver but X still only runs at a low res.  I have also tried
> with the fb driver.

There are some bugs open in Bugzilla about similar issues; please check
whether your symptoms match one of those.

> One other thing I noticed is a few xfree86 packages are left on the
> system which I would think should have been purged.

Daniel, if there are packages which should be removed manually after the
upgrade, please add them to http://www.ubuntu.com/wiki/HoaryUpgradeNotes

> I'll download the Hoary CD and try an install and report back.

Thanks!

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 - mdz



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