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.

A temporary fix was mentioned in a couple posts down from here (I'm too new to post the URL apparently ):

When you get to the text console type "sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-core=1:1.0.2-0ubuntu10"

To reboot after the downgrade type sudo shutdown -r now

apparently the version just before update was xserver-xorg-core=1:1.0.2-0ubuntu10 the update which crashes ubuntu is xserver-xorg-core=1:1.0.2-0ubuntu10.3 and a new fix is xserver-xorg-core=1:1.0.2-0ubuntu10.4

by now I would sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-core=1:1.0.2-0ubuntu10

Hi rinonapo and Burnspot,

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

Had same problem today--took me about 8 hours to find solution in this forum--but, had to use windows to view the forum! For the future, is there another way to view the forum and to get latest update.

Harold38

Hi Harold,

This is exactly how I did it:

You can download the update/ upgrade files on Windows from the URL posted in the forum (e.g. Ubuntu forum) and save them on a USB flash drive or burn them on a CD. You can then access the downloaded files from the Linux console.

Thanks for the tip.

Harold

You don't need X to browse the web, just install "lynx" package.
It's a text console web browser

Thanks for suggestion. I did some looking inre Lynx and decided it looked a bit too much for me at this time.

Did add "elinks" to my Ubuntu installation, but having trouble getting past the sign-in and enter password step--keeps telling me wrong password. Am using same password used to get mail at sbcglobal.net. Would there be a different password for "elinks"?

So far, have not found much (any?) help inre "elinks"

Harold

I just installed elinks to check it out, and I had no problem signing in with my username and password.
As for as help with elinks goes, you can try "elinks --help" and "man elinks"

Also this is getting a bit off topic now

Thanks!

Harold