[breezy] upgrade killed X.org

[Michael R Head]

On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 09:27 -0400, dave walker wrote:

> Samuel Thurston, III wrote:
> 
> >breezy killed x.
> >
> >Hey, it comes with the territory.  
> >
> >gdm doesn't start, and manually starting x isn't working since my last
> >update/reboot.  I got three clues, possibly unrelated.  At first I
> >wasn't even able to get online because dhclient failed with the
> >message "user dhcp doesn't exist" so i created the user and that went
> >away. the other symptoms I have are that the deferred execution
> >scheduler fails at startup for reasons I cannot ascertain, and my
> >nvidia driver seems to have disappeared completely, as i cannot
> >modprobe 'nvidia' or 'nv'.
> >
> >Any help would be appreciated
> >Thanks,
> >Sam
> >
> 1) Install xserver-xorg-driver-nv
> 2) I believe you will (i had to do this last night) install 
> xserver-xorg-input-kbd and xserver-xorg-input-mouse
> 3) dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg


I had to manually change 'Driver "keyboard"' to 'Driver "kbd"'
in /etc/X11/xorg.conf after this step in order to get X up again.


> 4) restart GDM
> 
> That worked for me.  Hope it works for you.
> 
> --
> Dave
> 

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