9.04 xorg badly broken

[Karl F. Larsen]

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Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> I have two systems that I upgraded to 9.04, and the x system is
> completely broken on one, and unsatisfactory on the other.
> 
> Here's the scoop on the broken one.  Bottom line, X never really
> starts, but it apparently does not know this, because I'm just faced
> with a black screen and an unresponsive system.  Since the install
> never finished (I couldn't use the live disk, and the alternative ISO
> only allows fresh installs), I don't have tools to log into the system
> over the network.  There's probably a way to do that from the command
> line, but I don't know how.
> 
> Details:
> 
> I'm using Ubuntu and Gentoo Linux, a 3dfx Voodoo 3 board and a
> Westinghouse LCD monitor model LCM-20v5 through a KVM switch (the
> Ubuntu and Gentoo are two different hosts).
> 
> I had a working configuration with xorg on both, they have both been
> broken by recent upgrades to xorg.  I can no longer get X to boot up
> to a working GUI.
> 
> For the moment, I'll focus on the Ubuntu situation
> 
> I have tried the output of Xorg --configure
> (http://pastebin.ca/1483889)    (log file http://pastebin.ca/1483907)
> I have tried the old xorg.conf  (http://pastebin.ca/1483892) (log file
> http://pastebin.ca/1483900)
> I have tried and empty xorg.conf. (log file http://pastebin.ca/1483925)
> 
> The results are the same with all  three: the Ubuntu bootup screen is
> normal (Graphical: Ubuntu logo, large name in an outline font, and a
> "cylon" progress bar with a bright segment moving back and forth)
> later followed by a brief moment with the usual Ubuntu "busy" cursor,
> then a black screen with occasional flickers of slightly gray).
> Useless, but I think I'd be satisfied with the mode that showed the
> cursor -- it was about as small as I remember for a 1280x1024 mode.
> 
> The hardware is working to this extent: Dual-booting to windows 98 I
> get 7 different video modes from 640x480 all the way up to 1280x1024.
> Moreover, the Ubuntu live disk can at least find a 600x800 mode,
> although this is not enough to properly show and execute the upgrade path.
> 
> I suspect there's something about the newer X and the monitor itself,
> rather than the video driver, because the Gentoo system also broke on
> upgrade, and it uses an ATI Rage chipset on the motherboard.  The
> results there are about the same.
> 
> How can I work to solve this?
> 
> 
	9.04 does not have a functional xorg so that might be your problem But
I think the main problem is upgrading. I have 9.04 on my laptop and this
computer. They were both loaded from the Beta LiveCD and I had very
little trouble.

73 Karl


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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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