[plug] Failed Drapper upgrade

[Chris Caston]

On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 07:31, Tomasz Grzegurzko wrote:
> 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? 

I'll try a bit later today.

> 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?
> 

What other options are there for integrated S3 unicrome. I don't know
wha I was using before the upgrade it looked pretty sweet.


> Tomasz
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