9.04 xorg badly broken

[NoOp]

On 07/06/2009 04:33 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> Synopsis: I now know more about my system but the X server status has
> not changed.
> 
> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 4:13 PM, NoOp<glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> On 07/06/2009 03:37 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>>> Synopsis: packages are now up to date.
>> ....
>>>
>>> Didn't need to do all that.  Retrying got dpkg to run clean and access
>>> all sources and indexes.
>>
>> Excellent!
>>> Still no xfix.
>>
>> See below - but probably not necessary since you can ssh -X into the
>> machine now. Instead from a terminal:
>>
>> $ sudo /usr/share/recovery-mode/options/xfix
> 
> Okay, that made a new xorg.conf, and saved the old one as
> xorg.conf.10090706162221
> It behaves the same as the old one -- black screen.  I can also report
> that even after a remote terminal has done "/etc/init.d/gdm stop" and
> it reports stoppage, that Ctl-Alt-fkeys fail to work and I cannot get
> a local login.
> 
> The new xorg.conf is like the default one and is almost empty.
> Useless in this case.

All 9.04 xorg.conf's will be almost empty unless modified manually.

These might be of help (sorry no easy answer):
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Debugging
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Troubleshooting
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Troubleshooting/BlankScreen