I still have the same Bug. i Upgrade and i install from cero i mean i do a clean instal and my graphic card ATI radeon breaks. Claudio Fron Chile 2010/2/6 joherrer > I am invited now to upgrade to 9.10. > I first installed 9.10 and had to quit due to nvidia. > Then my son installed 9.4 and it is doing well. > ¿Is it safe to accept the challenge upgrade? > > -- > upgrade breaks graphic drivers and x, preventing login or startx > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/464591 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in “xorg” package in Ubuntu: Invalid > > Bug description: > see also here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1305459 > > for some reasons the upgrade breaks proprietary graphics drivers > > this means a flickering screen without the possibility to login or startx. > > ATTENTION > > Since this bug report is being linked to by news stories, it is getting > viewed by many people with nvidia bugs that fail in similar ways but due to > unrelated causes. I'd like to direct them to more appropriate bug reports: > > The "blinks on reboot" issue is a bug in gdm, bug #441638. That blinking > symptom will occur for any sort of failure of X to start, and there are a > lot of reasons why X may not start, so be aware that just because someone > else is reporting this same blinking behavior does not necessarily mean you > have the same underlying cause as them, so keep digging. This is causing > lots of confusion in bug reports. > > For those who have upgraded since Intrepid or earlier, there is an issue > reported where /sbin/lrm-video can cause nvidia to fail loading. That file > no longer exists in Jaunty or Karmic and you can safely delete it as a work > around. Bug #467490 describes this issue. I don't know how common this is, > but if it is common we may need to make sure the upgrader removes the file > properly. Manually uninstalling all nvidia packages *might* clear the file. > > For people running -rt kernels, such as Ubuntu Studio users, -nvidia has a > known incompatibility there, see bug #464125 for example. Similar situation > for -pae kernels, see bug #454220 as a recent example. > > Someone mentioned that "the upgrader disables the proprietary drivers". > According to mvo, that is not correct, or at least not intentional. However, > the upgrader *does* remove driver entries from xorg.conf if the driver is no > longer present after upgrade. As far as I know, this should all work > seamlessly for people, however several people have reported that removing > their xorg.conf and reinstalling -nvidia helped, so it is possible there is > an error in this logic. If you suspect this is the case, what we need is a > full bug report filed using 'ubuntu-bug xorg'; in particular we need to see > the xorg.conf files so we understand how the upgrader is misbehaving. > > I see a lot in forum articles the advice that "the solution" is to remove > "nvidia" or "fglrx" lines from xorg.conf. While this may help in getting the > system functioning again, please note that it is not a solution - it merely > turns off the proprietary drivers. Whatever the original problem was is > still there, you're just using different video drivers. Also, be aware that > both nvidia and fglrx install GL and other libraries on top of the normal > system libraries, so if you install one of those drivers and then use > something else, it may work for 2D but you may run into severe problems for > 3D. This is also a known issue - bug 258038 describes one possible solution > we will be considering for Lucid. It's a hard problem to solve for > proprietary drivers though. > > There are almost certainly more nvidia bugs, but we also have plenty of > other bug reports (over 300 against -nvidia so far), many of which have been > reported using ubuntu-bug so are closer to having the information we need. > > Finally, regarding people skills, actually after thousands of X bug reports > those get worn down to a raw nub so I don't think I have them any more. All > that's left is a grumpy X maintainer. > > p.s. Also see bug 438398 which appears to be the root cause for a lot of > the nvidia failures. Unfortunately jockey may not be flagging these errors > to the user (bug 441638) leading them to reboot without the nvidia driver > fully installed. > > > To unsubscribe from this bug, go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/464591/+subscribe > -- "Yo estoy con Marco, Súmate al Cambio". http://www.guendelman.com Claudio Guendelman U.