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Angel Guzman Maeso (shakaran) wrote : fglrx-updates broken dependency with xorg-video-abi-12

I run updates today on my quantal box.

I have a ATI Madison [Radeon HD 5000M Series] and the updates removes the xserver-xorg-video-radeon and xserver-xorg-video-ati

When I restart, all xserver is broken because /usr/bin/X cannot be found. I even don't have vesa or fbdev for start with "startx" command.

I install with recovery mode xserver-xorg-video-vesa and xserver-xorg-video-fbdev and now I have a crappy 1024 resolution and no second monitor support.

If I install the packages xserver-xorg-video-radeon and xserver-xorg-video-ati I still have the same problem.

So I try to install fglrx-updates, and it conflicts with a dependency of a virtual package that it is not provided anymore

sudo apt-get install fglrx-updates fglrx-amdcccle-updates
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 fglrx-updates : Depends: xorg-video-abi-12
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

 sudo apt-get install xorg-video-abi-12
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package xorg-video-abi-12 is a virtual package provided by:
  xserver-xorg-core 2:1.12.1.902-1ubuntu1 [Not candidate version]

E: Package 'xorg-video-abi-12' has no installation candidate

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: fglrx-updates (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-7.7-generic 3.5.0
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-7-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.4-0ubuntu6
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Aug 3 16:54:41 2012
InstallationMedia:

ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: fglrx-installer-updates
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-06-05 (59 days ago)