Thursday August 16, 2007 Latest Ubuntu Gutsy Updates Blew Me Away
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I've been living on the edge. I'm running Ubuntu Gutsy on my main work machine, a Ferrari 3400 laptop, and each morning I've been applying the latest updates. Normally this hasn't been a problem. |
But the updates from yesterday have caused a graphics issue. I apparently can't bring up the XOrg server. I do have an external monitor attached and I noticed that today, (for the first time), it tried to startup both the laptop screen and the external monitor. In the past, with an external monitor attached, only that external monitor has shown anything. The laptop screen had remained dark.
I'm guessing this is some kind of dual or multi head issue or maybe an ATI specific graphics driver related issue, because I've been able to successfully update my other Ubuntu deskside Gutsy box which has an NVIDIA graphics card in it, and just that single monitor.
Other than the graphics issue, things seem to be okay. I can ssh to the machine and it's nicely started up as a multi-user system.
One of my co-workers has been similarly affected. I'm guessing we are not the only ones and this issue is being actively worked on.
If anybody knows a fix or a workaround, I'd be very interested.
Update:
Unplugging the external monitor allows the XOrg server to successfully start
on the laptop screen (thanks Joanie). So this suggests it's a multi-head issue.
Maybe I need some new magic config lines in my xorg.conf (but you'd think that
doing an "Xorg -configure" would have sorted that one out, which I tried).
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My situation <strike>is</strike> was a tri-head box with two dual-head ATI cards. When I upgraded, Gutsy no longer booted. As long as I only have one screen per card enabled in the ServerLayout section of my xorg.conf, I'm fine. Well, I can boot anyway. I've grown used to have a tri-head box, and this dual-head thang ain't working out so well.... ;-) I'm going to try moving the third monitor to the onboard svga port and see what happens. Maybe I'll buy an nVidia card too. In the meantime, I'd be grateful for any insight for the proper way to fix this.
Thanks Rich for letting me plead to your readers for assistance. :-)
Posted by joanie on August 16, 2007 at 10:36 AM PDT #
We recently updated the ati driver to 6.6.193 in Gutsy, which seems to be the most likely culprit. Reverting back down to 6.6.3-2ubuntu6 would probably be worth trying. In any case, if you gain a better understanding of this issue, I'd encourage you to file a bug on Launchpad against xorg, so we can investigate it further.
Posted by Bryce Harrington on August 22, 2007 at 03:23 PM PDT #
Thanks Bryce.
Like Joanie, I've simply gone back to the xserver-xorg-video-ati package from Feisty
and it's working great.
See the followup post of mine for more details:
http://blogs.sun.com/richb/entry/solved_latest_ubuntu_gutsy_updates
Posted by Rich Burridge on August 22, 2007 at 05:55 PM PDT #