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[Aisano <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As I mentioned I had to install 8.04 as 9.10 would not display anything
and 9.04 did not support my network card (on the live CD, at least).
Hoping that an upgrade from 8.04 would preserve my network card driver I
ventured that upgrade (using update manager). Ubuntu 8.10 seems to have
installed alright but when I rebooted I got a "kinit: trying to resume
from ... No resume image, doing normal boot".

Why not.

I logged on in text mode and tried to "startx". It gave me a "Primary
device is not PCI; No devices detected... no screens found giving up". I
tried a "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg", also with a "-phigh", even
tried copying a working xorg.conf from my other (not identical) pc.
Nothing worked. Although it had worked satisfactorily under Ubuntu 8.04.

The interesting thing is that Xorg.0.log tells me just the opposite of
"startx": "More than one possible primary device found. PCI: (0@0:2:0)
Intel corporation unknown chipset... PCI: (0@1:0:0) nVidia Corporation
unknown chipset ..." So do I have a PCI primary device or not? [The
arithmetic mean of the two messages suggests I have exactly one.]

I tried an "Xorg -configure" but it switched to another screen so fast I
could not read its output. Redirecting it to a file revealed an
"undefined symbol: xf86GetPciVideoInfo". That does not help me a lot. I
am just a poor user trying to get a somewhat current Ubuntu installed on
a brand new computer -- for a week now.

Several WWW pages seem to indicate that Linux has problems with multiple
graphics cards. I hadn't even known that my new notebook had two but the
log output quoted above seems to indicate that.

I have no way of telling if this is a bug or a feature but if Ubuntu
means to support installing or upgrading within a week then it is
somewhere near a bug. Is there a way of disabling one of the cards? As I
mentioned my old PC (9.10) ceased displaying anything on the primary
screen weeks ago, which was the reason for me to buy a new one. Still
the Xorg.0.log on the old computer says nothing about "more than one
possible primary device". Are there graphics cards not supported by
Ubuntu? Is there a list of supported cards? It would be helpful.

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primary notebook screen remains blank in 9.10
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/525021
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