[ale] Upgrading to 9.10 hosed my system

[JK]

Lo and beFsckingHold, I copied xorg.conf.failsafe (which uses the VESA
driver) over the installed xorg.conf, and instantly POOF, X starts and
all is well.

I may get around to installing the actual NVidia drivers at some point,
but all this box does is virtualization, so as long as it boots successfully
I am happy.

Many (additional) thanks,

-- JK


JK wrote:
> Ryan Marshall wrote:
> 
>> I had the exact same issue last night while trying to switch over to the 
>> binary nVidia drivers.
>>
>> If I understand correctly, it seems like the X server is constantly 
>> crashing and reloading.  On mine, the hard drive light was flashing in 
>> sync with the screen flicker.
>>
>> Anyway, I rebooted it, brought it up into recovery mode, did a 
>> dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg out of habit and then ran the .run from 
>> the nVidia driver package that I had downloaded after the Ubuntu 
>> automated install failed repeatedly.  Follow the steps in the .run file 
>> and got a beautiful composited desktop on next reboot. 
> 
> 
> That looks like *exactly* what I was seeing - I, too, noticed that the
> HD light and the screen flicker seemed sync'd.  The crash-and-respawn X
> behavior totally explains that, *and* the keyboard weirdness too.
> 
> I'm using the onboard video on my Asus M3N78 MB, which is in fact
> nVidia.  I'll give your suggestion a try when I get back home tomorrow.
> 
> Many many thanks,
> 
> -- JK
> 
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