[plug] Upgrade from Debian 4 to Debian 5 gone wrong

[Bret Busby]

On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Marcos Raúl Carot Collins wrote:

> Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:54:00 +0800
> From: "[UTF-8] Marcos Raúl Carot Collins" <marcos.carot at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: plug at plug.org.au
> To: plug at plug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] Upgrade from Debian 4 to Debian 5 gone wrong
> 
> 2009/9/16 Bret Busby <bret at busby.net>:
>> Hello.
>>
>> I have just spent a couple of hours or so, trying to upgrade from Debian 4
>> to Debian 5, and have lost XWindows.
>>
>> The error messages when I try to run start x, are
>> "Failed to load module "ati" (module does not exist, 0)"
>> and
>> "No drivers available"
>>
>> I assume that the upgrade deleted the graphics card driver.
>>
>> How do I fix this, so that XWindows will run?
>>
>> Thanks in anticipation.
>
>
> aptitude install xserver-xorg-video-ati
>
> Cheers!
>
> Marcos
>

That fixed it nicely.

Thank you very much.

Now, I just have to fix the font, which has overtyping or something. 
Should be easy.

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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