upgrade today - graphics borked.

[NoOp]

On 07/02/2009 02:51 PM, David Curtis wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 16:51:26 -0400
> Verde Denim <tdldev at gmail.com> wrote:
<snips>
>> 
>> 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.

Good point.

@jack: you can see these announcements at:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn
and this one:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-793-1

I upgraded yesterday w/no issues with my nVidia restricted drivers
(nvidia-96-kernel-source) on jaunty.

On jaunty:
Commit Log for Wed Jul  1 19:54:03 2009
Upgraded the following packages:
linux-headers-2.6.28-13 (2.6.28-13.44) to 2.6.28-13.45
linux-headers-2.6.28-13-generic (2.6.28-13.44) to 2.6.28-13.45
linux-image-2.6.28-13-generic (2.6.28-13.44) to 2.6.28-13.45
linux-libc-dev (2.6.28-13.44) to 2.6.28-13.45

On the hardy test machine:
Commit Log for Wed Jul  1 20:01:40 2009
Upgraded the following packages
<snip>
linux-headers-2.6.24-24 (2.6.24-24.53) to 2.6.24-24.55
linux-headers-2.6.24-24-generic (2.6.24-24.53) to 2.6.24-24.55
linux-image-2.6.24-24-386 (2.6.24-24.53) to 2.6.24-24.55
linux-image-2.6.24-24-generic (2.6.24-24.53) to 2.6.24-24.55
linux-image-2.6.24-24-rt (2.6.24-24.53) to 2.6.24-24.55
linux-libc-dev (2.6.24-24.53) to 2.6.24-24.55
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-24-generic (2.6.24.17-24.1) to
2.6.24.18-24.1
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-24-rt (2.6.24.17-24.1) to 2.6.24.18-24.1
linux-restricted-modules-common (2.6.24.17-24.1) to 2.6.24.18-24.1
<snip>

So I reckon that I was lucky not to have the issue. David's suggestion
should work. If it doesn't you can backup your existing
/etc/X11/xorg.conf, disconnect your 42" plasma tv temporarily, and try
xfix via booting to recovery mode, or from existing by:

$ sudo /usr/share/recovery-mode/options/xfix

Keep in mind that xfix runs '/usr/share/recovery-mode/options/xfix' so
your previous xorg.conf file will be overwritten (hence the advise to
backup the file first). So, you will most likely need to set up your 42"
plasma tv afterwards.