I finally managed to update my laptop using preupgrade. When it booted
up I did not get a GUI. Here is a partial output of the
messages file:<br><br><br>Nov 19 09:59:48 peglaptopx gdm-binary[2009]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display lasted 0.245028 seconds<br>
Nov 19 09:59:48 peglaptopx gdm-binary[2009]: WARNING:
GdmLocalDisplayFactory: maximum number of X display failures reached:
check X server log for errors<br>Nov 19 09:59:48 peglaptopx init: prefdm main process (2009) terminated with status 1<br>
Nov 19 09:59:48 peglaptopx init: prefdm main process ended, respawning<br>Nov 19 09:59:48 peglaptopx init: prefdm respawning too fast, stopped<br>Nov 19 10:01:31 peglaptopx abrtd: Hmm, stray update_client: 'Creating kernel oops crash reports...'<br>
Nov 19 10:01:31 peglaptopx abrt: Kerneloops: Reported 1 kernel oopses to Abrt<br>Nov 19 10:01:31 peglaptopx abrtd: Directory 'kerneloops-1258650091-1' creation detected<br>Nov 19 10:01:35 peglaptopx abrtd: Getting local universal unique identification<br>
Nov 19 10:01:35 peglaptopx abrtd: New crash, saving...<br><br>I have attached the Xorg log file.<br><br>Here is the lspci output<br><br>00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller (rev 03)<br>
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to AGP Controller (rev 03)<br>00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)<br>00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)<br>
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)<br>00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)<br>00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 81)<br>
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)<br>00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 01)<br>00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)<br>
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 01)<br>01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV28 [GeForce4 Ti 4200 Go AGP 8x] (rev a1)<br>02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401 100Base-T (rev 01)<br>
02:01.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI4510 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 02)<br>02:01.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCI4510 IEEE-1394 Controller<br>02:03.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter (rev 04)<br>
<br>After my experience getting this working I'm not too thrilled with F12. This configuration worked fine under F11.<br><br>Paolo<font color="#888888"><br></font>