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[Wayde <didinux@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Danilo,

That's true, i also tried to login with an older kernel but it froze.
My solution was to login with no graphics and did another upgrade.

Thanks for your help.
--
Wayde.


2009/9/18 Danilo Šegan <danilo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> Hi Wayde,
>
> У чет, 17. 09 2009. у 23:01 +0200, Wayde пише:
> > I did an upgrade from Jaunty a while ago but a system upgrade broke my
> > system. The screen blinks 4-5 times and then hangs.
> > When i try to "startx" it display an Itntel graphic related error
> > (sorry i dont have the exact error).
>
> If it was something like:
>
> (EE) GARTInit: Unable to open /dev/agpgart (No such file or directory)
> (EE) intel(0): /dev/agpgart is either not available, or no memory is
> available
> for allocation.  Please enable agpgart
> .(WW) intel(0): VideoRam reduced to 65528 KB (page aligned - was 65531
> KB)
> (WW) intel(0): DRI2: failed to open drm device
> (**) intel(0): Framebuffer compression enabled
> (**) intel(0): Tiling enabled
> (**) intel(0): SwapBuffers wait enabled
> (EE) intel(0): Failed to initialize kernel memory manager
> (==) intel(0): VideoRam: 65528 KB
> (II) intel(0): Attempting memory allocation with tiled buffers.
> (EE) intel(0): AGP GART support is either not available or cannot be
> used.
>        Make sure your kernel has agpgart support or has
>        the agpgart module loaded.
> (II) intel(0): Tiled allocation failed.
> (WW) intel(0): Couldn't allocate tiled memory, fb compression disabled
> (II) intel(0): Attempting memory allocation with untiled buffers.
> (EE) intel(0): AGP GART support is either not available or cannot be
> used.
>        Make sure your kernel has agpgart support or has
>        the agpgart module loaded.
> (II) intel(0): Untiled allocation failed.
> (EE) intel(0): Couldn't allocate video memory
>
> Fatal server error:
> AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0
>
>
> I had a problem like that myself few days ago.  One of the updates that
> wasn't able to complete was for either upstart or initscripts package.
>
> Solution was to use archive.ubuntu.com (instead of rs.archive.ubuntu.com
> which was in there for me) in /etc/apt/sources.list and aptitude update
> and upgrade again.
>
> Note that it was possible to get into X with an older kernel, but that
> just froze in gdm (login screen).
>
> Cheers,
> Danilo
>
>