apt-get dist-upgrade, and X issues

[Steve]

On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:21:39 -0000, stan <stanb at panix.com> wrote:

> I just did an apt-get dist-upgrade on a 9.10 box, and when I rebooted. I
> get a message about running in low-res mode. It says "(EE)XKB: no
> components provided for virtual cire keyboard.
>
> This machine has a Nvidia graphics card, and the Xorg.0.log file seems to
> indicate that the nvidia module was laoded corectly:
>
> This seems to e the root cause of the problem:
>
> (EE) XKB: No components provided for device Virtual core keyboard
> (WW) Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap
> [config/dbus] couldn't take over org.x.config:
> org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Disconnected (Connection was disconnected  
> before
> a reply was received)
> [config/hal] couldn't add match rule:
> org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Disconnected (Connection is closed)
> [config/hal] cannot detect a HAL startup.
>
> What can I do to fix this?
>
Have you tried booting an earlier kernel version, as there was a kernel  
update today

-- 
Steve