Warty -> Hoary upgrade, X11 fails.

George Farris farrisg at mala.bc.ca
Mon Jan 31 12:19:31 CST 2005


On Mon, 2005-31-01 at 09:31 -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> 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, I'll check bugzilla.  I have downloaded and attempted an install
of the current daily CD and X installation fails completely for the i865
video.

Cheers

-- 
George Farris   farrisg at mala.bc.ca
Network and Technical Services
Malaspina University-College




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