[hansi]

Hi,

I have Ubuntu 6.06 installed about a month ago and everything worked fine until I checked for updates and after installing one of the X-server core common update my X-Server does not work anymore.

The error message I get is as follows:

"Failed to start the XServer...It is unlikely that it is not set up correctly"

and at the end of the message the folowing is displayed:

(EE) No devices detected
Failed Server Error:
No screens found

Is there a way to revert back to the previous version of the xorg.conf file prior to the installed update?

If not, can you please help me?

Thanks in advance,

Hansi

I have a NVidia GeForce FX GO5700 graphics card.

[SjefGoossens]

Hi Hansi,

I used aptitude (I'm lazy) to downgrade the xserver-xorg-core (and -dev) to the previous version (Ubuntu10 instead of Ubuntu10.3) and this did the trick.
You can find these in the "installed packages / x11 / main" section.
Use the "v" switch to select the correct version and force this to be installed. You will get a couple of warnings but it is possible to downgrade the package without having to reinstall any deps (do we love debs or not!)

If (like me) you also ran the NVIDIA installer before downgrading the xserver-xorg-core, then you will have to re-run this again (against the previous version of the -dev, as some of the glx functionality is no longer available and will crash your X server.

Good luck!

[KenJackson]

It's looking at /etc/X11/xorg.conf, so to revert you need to see if there is an xorg.conf.old or similar. You could just swap them and try it.

(EE) No devices detected

I belive it searches for "devices" in the xorg.conf file like this:
It finds the "ServerLayout" section and finds the Screen - which may be "screen1".
It searches for a "Screen" section with an Identifier that matches, i.e. "screen1".
In that "Screen" section, it finds the Device - which may be "device1".
It searches for the "Device" section with an Identifier that matches, i.e. "device1".

I think that is what it can't find, the "Device" section with an identifier that matches.
But if it found it, it would read the Driver line to see "nvidia" and use that driver.

You may be able to edit xorg.conf to fix it, or google or post here for very specific answers.

BTW, try swapping "nv" and "nvidia" on the Device line. That is, if one is there, try the other.

[ihatexp]

Same problem. Bad package, can't access anything. All I really want to do is burn a few of my files so i can swap OS's (Ubuntu to Windows - Windows to Ubuntu- running 2 comps) I suck at Linux and the bible is more confusing as it does not help. How can I copy my old desktop files to a cd?

[ihatexp]

Just figures... 2 hrs searching and 10 Min after posting my last I find the answer on my own.

Anyone else stuck on this problem, The following worked for me:
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When your Xserver crashes and you are at root (sudo su -)text console type this:

sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-core=1:1.0.2-0ubuntu10

When finnish, reboot or just type startx. To reboot type:
sudo shutdown -r now

Now xserver-xorg-core is downgraded to prior working version.
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Thank you dmery (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=241126)

[towy71]

update normally now, the fix was issued pretty quickly, it worked fine on my system

[hansi]

Hi guys,

Thanks for the information. Indeed it was a faulty xserver core upgrade that caused the problem. Ubuntu made an upgrade available almost immediately.

Took me 5 hours to finally realize that it was not my mistake .

Regards,

hansi