X died after upgrading 4.10

[Liam Proven]

I've just managed to fix my main PC, which has been dead since March.
My main OS was Ubuntu 4.10 tho' it also has W2K, Xandros 3 and SuSE
9.3 on it.

Naturally enough, when I got it to boot once again, it found a whole
host of updates it wanted to install. 4.10 had no automatic update - I
went into Synaptic and told it to install all updates. About 234MB of
them.

After doing so, my X server will no longer start. I have a Matrox G550
AGP card with identical twin 17" CRTs on it; both ran at 1280x1024 in
24-bit colour. I only got this working by copying the working xfree86
config file over from my SuSE installation; I tried amending Ubuntu's
xfree86.conf by hand to enable the 2nd monitor but it wouldn't work.

In the course of the upgrade, it has replaced Xfree86 with X.org and
this appears not to understand the xfree86 config file. I have had the
same problem on SuSE, incidentally.

I managed to get the rest of the patches and updates from the command
prompt with

apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

But now I have a running system with no GUI.

I have tried running X -configure but this also will not start. Both
normal X startup and the -configure startup report that they cannot
find a valid keyboard device.

Any ideas of what I can try next? I am at a loss. Should I simply
remove xorg.conf and start from scratch?

All help gratefully received!

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