Re: X.org mouse broke on dist-upgrade, solved ?
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 02:47:56PM -0800, Cameron L. Spitzer wrote:
> [This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.]
> A colleague did a dist-upgrade, sarge to etch, and everything
> still worked except the X Window System. dpkg-reconfigure
> left him with "No screens found" X unusable.
> The standard fix for that, boot Knoppix and use the xorg.conf
> file it generates, worked, except his mouse was dead.
>
> Turns out the dist-upgrade brought in udev and hal and
> module-init-tools, but no new kernel image. He was
> still running the 2.4 Sarge kernel, no udev, no
> hardware abstraction layer.
>
> apt-get install linux-image-2.6-486
> update-grub
>
> fixed the problem. Is dist-upgrade supposed to bring
> in the right kernel/initrd?
>
IIRC, the release notes say to first get to a 2.6 kernel, then upgrade
aptitude, then do the full ball of wax.
Doug.
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