10.04 not picking up prior change to graphics card

[LEGOManiac]

After using sudo apt-get upgrade, my Acer netbook won't boot into X. Using startx from the command prompt fails

I tried sudo shutdown now

This got me to the menu where I could try a Xserver in safe mode, to which I get the following curious message about Ubuntu running in low-graphics mode with the following errors in the dialog box:

Failed to load module "i810" (module does not exist. 0)
Failed to initialize GLX-extension (Compatible NVIDIA X driver not found)
config/ha;l: couldn't initialize context: unknown error (null)

I have no mouse control, so I can't click through this dialog box, nor does it respond to enter or space, nor to the power button. I have to force a shutdown.

Now, the second error message is interesting. The hard disk in the netbook comes *originally* from an Ubuntu laptop with an nVidia graphics controller. When the laptop died, the drive was moved to this Acer netbook with an Intel graphics controller and the nVidia driver was removed and all was well. I"m surprised that it seems to think it's using nVidia again. I wonder where it's getting it from...

When I initially put the drive in the netbook, I had to go into recovery mode and type:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

to ditch the nVidia graphics support and all has been well ever since.

I'm writing this up as a bug because I believe that 10.04 should have looked at the current state of the system when trying to decide on a graphics driver. I realize the old nVidia driver is probably still on the system since I didn't expressly remove it but the upgrade installer should be looking at what was being used prior to the upgrade, not at what may or may not still exist on the system. At least, that appears to be what's happening.

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Have you tried moving out xorg.conf and rebootig ?

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

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