[plug] Failed Drapper upgrade

Tomasz Grzegurzko tomasz89 at gmail.com
Wed Jun 7 07:31:52 WST 2006


Chris Caston wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 23:01, Chris Caston wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I just tried to upgrade Kubuntu Breezy to Drapper on my Durabook 14k.
>>
>> Now trying to start KDE will start to grey pattern sort of pages then
>> crash x.org
>>
>> I get various /lib/modules/2.6x/drivers/input (I think) errors
>> then x.org6 says it couldn't initalize core devices like 
>>
>> kbd and mouse
>>
>> There's heaps of "No symbols found" errors. It will take ages to write
>> them out but I guess I could take a photo.
>>
>> The bottom couple of cm's of the screen goes past the viewable area now
>> for some reason so using bash is a near nightmare.
>>
>> I managed to backup the contents of my home directory. This PC uses grub
>> to dual boot between Kubuntu and XP Pro.
>>
>> Is there a way I can fix this or is a reinstall in order?
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> Chris  
>>
> 
> 
> I manged to burn my x.org log file to CD (I used a very cheap one) and
> uploaded it to my webhosting provider:
> 
> http://www.wayofftopic.org/f.txt
> 
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Can you post your /etc/X11/xorg.conf? Just looking at the log, I would 
guess your driver sections for keyboard and mouse are out of whack. 
Also, you're using the vesa driver -- are you sure you want to use this 
and not something closer to your hardware?

Tomasz



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