SOLVED Re: Upgrade to 810 breaks xorg again

[Frank McCormick]

Frank McCormick wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
> 
No-op this is after purging xserver-xorg-video-intel:



root at frank-desktop:/home/frank# aptitude search xserver-xorg-video-intel
c   xserver-xorg-video-intel        - X.Org X server -- Intel i8xx, i9xx
display
p   xserver-xorg-video-intel-dbg    - X.Org X server -- Intel i8xx, i9xx
display

root at frank-desktop:/home/frank# aptitude install xserver-xorg-video-intel
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
No candidate version found for xserver-xorg-video-intel
No candidate version found for xserver-xorg-video-intel
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done

root at frank-desktop:/home/frank#


So purging the driver solved nothing because Synaptic and aptitude still
can't install it. Have to go back to DL it.

Cheers