upgrade today - graphics borked.

[David Curtis]

On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 16:51:26 -0400
Verde Denim <tdldev at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 4:40 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
> > On 07/02/2009 12:49 PM, Verde Denim wrote:
> > > In trying to resolve this issue, i pulled up the nvidia docs on
> > > ubuntu pages.
> > > It says to check the installed hardware drivers and make sure it
> > > is
> > checked.
> > > I have re-installed this twice but each time i go into hardware
> > > drivers, there isn't anything there.
> > > Am I missing something?
> > >
> > > lspci reports the nvidia hardware.
> > > .xsession-errirs reports this:
> > > ** (nautilus:10240): WARNING **: Unable to add monitor: Not
> > > supported
> > >
> > > I have a dell 1503FP as default and a panasonic 42" plasma tv as a
> > > secondary.
> > > The dell has no display at all, and the res/display on the plasma
> > > (the
> > only
> > > one I can get)
> > > is horrible.
> > >
> > > Thanks for the help. This is driving me a little whippy...
> > >
> > > Jack
> > >
> > >
> >
> > And what 'updates' would those be?
> >
> > On my hardy 8.04 test machine I see that there are several security
> > updates:
> > - libvlc0
> > - vlc
> > - vlc-nox
> > - vlc-plugin-pulse
> > Plus several Proposed updates:
> > - sun-java6-bin
> > etc., etc.
> >
> > On one of my jaunty 9.04 machines:
> > - libpurple-bin
> > - pidgin
> > - sun-java6-bin
> > etc., etc.
> >
> > On this jaunty 9.04 machine:
> > $ sudo apt-get upgrade
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree
> > Reading state information... Done
> > The following packages will be upgraded:
> >  libcompress-raw-zlib-perl libperl5.10 libpurple0 perl perl-base
> > perl-doc perl-modules pidgin pidgin-data sun-java6-bin sun-java6-jre
> > 11 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> > Need to get 62.3MB of archives.
> >
> > You see, 'upgrade today' doesn't mean a whole lot unless you specify
> > which upgrade & which k/u/x/buntu.
> 
> 
> 
> NoOp - I stand corrected. I'm running 8.04 LTS server (64-bit). The
> upgrade this morning (7/2/2009) specified kernel upgrades.
> 
> Jack

>From the USN (Ubuntu Security Notice) for this security upgrade
(kernel):

"ATTENTION: Due to an unavoidable ABI change for Ubuntu 8.04 and 8.10,
the kernel updates have been given a new version number, which requires
you to recompile and reinstall all third party kernel modules you
might have installed. If you use linux-restricted-modules, you have to
update that package as well to get modules which work with the new
kernel version. Unless you manually uninstalled the standard kernel
metapackages (e.g. linux-generic, linux-server, linux-powerpc), a
standard system upgrade will automatically perform this as well."

I would guess that you need to upgrade the module that runs your video
card, a 'sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade' should work,
if you've compiled the module by hand you will have to do that over
again with the new kernel packages.



-- 
David Curtis <dcurtis at uniserve.com>