breezy to dapper upgrade problems

[David Berg]

On 3/22/06, David Berg <drberg1000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just tried to upgrade from breezy to dapper and am having some
> troubles running X.
>
> To try and eliminate problems, I did a fresh breezy install on a spare
> partition.  When the install was complete I changed the sources.list
> to point to the dapper repositories.  Ran aptitude update; aptitude
> dist-upgrade a couple times to make sure all the new packages were
> installed properly (didn't get any errors) and rebooted.
>
> Booting into dapper with the 2.6.15 kernel the system froze when it
> tried to load gdm.  Booting with the old 2.6.12 kernel gdm loads and i
> can log in to gnome but windows aren't drawn properly.  FVWM behaves
> the same way.
>
> I've temporarily posted the Xorg.0.log file at
> http://berg.selfip.net/Xorg.0.log.
>
> I'd appreciate any help.  I'm not sure what else to try.  Settings in
> my xorg.conf file are correct.
>
> --Dave
>

Found xorg bug # 5443
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5443 which has patches
for xorg to fix the problem.

--Dave