No display after upgrade to 9.04

[marc]

Bob Cortez said:

> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
>> Bob Cortez wrote:
>>> I'll retry the recovery option.  How do you reboot when it goest to
>>> the blank screen.  I don't like doing the power off option if I can
>>> help it.
>>
>> Switch to a text console with Ctrl-Alt-F2 and reboot with Ctrl-Alt-Del.
>> If switching to a text console doesn't work you would really need the
>> power off option.
> 
> Ok still no display.  I can however get command line with network
> connection.  What I I'm thinking is that I need to open third party
> repositories so that I can apt-get the display driver. Does that make
> sense, and if so, how do I do it?

Do you have an old, working xorg.conf?

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Best,
Marc