SOLVED Re: Upgrade to 810 breaks xorg again

[Frank McCormick]

NoOp wrote:
> On 10/24/2008 02:17 PM, Frank McCormick wrote:
>> Mario Vukelic wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 16:45 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
>>>> Forget it. Found the driver. Installed it and I'm happy again. HOWEVER I
>>>> can't understand why Synaptic and aptitude can't find it never mind
>>>> install it. 
>>> It's installed by default on my machine (which uses ATi, though), dunno
>>> why it isn't for you:
>>>
>>> mario at chronic: ~ $ cat /etc/lsb-release 
>>> DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
>>> DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.10
>>> DISTRIB_CODENAME=intrepid
>>> DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 8.10"
>>> mario at chronic: ~ $ aptitude search xserver-xorg-video-intel
>>> i A xserver-xorg-video-intel - X.Org X server -- Intel i8xx, i9xx \
>>> display driver                               
>>> p   xserver-xorg-video-intel-dbg - X.Org X server -- Intel i8xx, i9xx \
>>> display driver (debug symbols)               
>>> mario at chronic: ~ $
>>>
>>>
>>   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.
> 
> 
> 
  I'll give it a shot - and let you know.