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[ajmctaggart <ajmctaggart@xxxxxxxxx>]

Good to know, thanks (Eventually I'll upgrade to Karmic, but I can't afford
to be done right now with school and work)

Glad you've resolved your issue!

Thanks,
Anthony

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 2:06 AM, Wayde <didinux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
>