SOLVED Re: Upgrade to 810 breaks xorg again

[Derek Broughton]

NoOp wrote:

> On 10/24/2008 02:17 PM, Frank McCormick wrote:

>>   Makes two of us who don't know. I had exactly the same problem after
>> an upgrade to 8.04 a week ago. I had to go to the repository..dl it and
>> install it. Aptitude and Synaptic told me it was in the database but had
>> no "candidate" for it. Is it possible the database on my machine is
>> messed up in some subtle way?
> 
> Look in Synaptic for the xserver-xorg-video-intel; completely remove (or
> 'sudo apt-get remove --purge xserver-xorg-video-intel' from a terminal).
> Then reinstall via Synaptic. The problem is possibly the same as I had
> on another system that was upgraded from Dapper-Feisty-Gutsy-Hardy;
> apparently the xserver-xorg-video-intel was stuck in limbo. Once I
> purged the old & reinstalled it was fine.

Which I think is a somewhat convoluted way of saying that "yes, your
database is messed up in some subtle way" :-)
-- 
derek