X died after upgrading 4.10

[Sam Tygier]

did you try

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

or possible if the machine still has xfree86

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86

is there an error messsage when you run startx, or sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start

sam

Liam Proven wrote:
> 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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