Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] WARNING: X-server breakage coming soon to a computer near you

2010-08-13 Thread Lane Lester
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Goh Lip g@gmx.com wrote: Glad you have your Lubuntu back. That was a neat trick (remove nvidia-current) and may I refer your method to some guys at ubuntu having the same problem, (gpl v2 licence ? :) ) Of course. Without lists and forums, I think I would

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] WARNING: X-server breakage coming soon to a computer near you

2010-08-13 Thread Goh Lip
To all, not withstanding Lane and I got our Lubuntu Maverick working, please take note of the following post from the Ubuntu list You are going to have to use nouveau for now, the proprietary nvidia-96 and nvidia-173 drivers do not work with xserver 1.9 and most likely will not until

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] WARNING: X-server breakage coming soon to a computer near you

2010-08-12 Thread Lane Lester
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Goh Lip g@gmx.com wrote: I think, but I am not quite sure, startx for lxde is startlxde Well, I didn't get a chance to find out. I did another apt-get update/upgrade, like I did yesterday, and this time I also ran: aptitude remove nvidia-current (after

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] WARNING: X-server breakage coming soon to a computer near you

2010-08-12 Thread Goh Lip
On Friday 13,August,2010 12:54 AM, Lane Lester wrote: On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Goh Lip g@gmx.com mailto:g@gmx.com wrote: I think, but I am not quite sure, startx for lxde is startlxde Well, I didn't get a chance to find out. I did another apt-get update/upgrade, like I

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] WARNING: X-server breakage coming soon to a computer near you

2010-08-11 Thread Lane Lester
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 8:07 PM, Bob Trevithick bob.trevith...@gmail.comwrote: But but but.. sputter, fume.. I *did* follow the warnings. :-) I thought. Live and learn. The only warnings I saw were, Your system may break. So you either didn't do the upgrades and your system didn't break,

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] WARNING: X-server breakage coming soon to a computer near you

2010-08-11 Thread Phillip Whiteside
There are some solutions now being offered on http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1549195 for those still having problems. Regards, Phill. On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Bob Trevithick bob.trevith...@gmail.comwrote: The only warnings I saw were, Your system may break. So you either

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] WARNING: X-server breakage coming soon to a computer near you

2010-08-11 Thread Lane Lester
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 4:22 AM, Goh Lip g@gmx.com wrote: Lane, latest update of X11-xkb-utils solved this. But of course, it would be no help if one cannot boot in, even to the recovery console, to do the upgrade. So, if you are still having the same problem booting up, append

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] WARNING: X-server breakage coming soon to a computer near you

2010-08-10 Thread Lane Lester
Thanks, Bob. Regretfully, that didn't do it for me, but I'm not sure if my problem was nvidia-related. I let Synaptic do the update (90+ packages!), but it errored out with problems updating python packages. I rebooted normally, and it hung after starting cupsd. A repeat did the same. I

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] WARNING: X-server breakage coming soon to a computer near you

2010-08-09 Thread Lane Lester
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Yorvyk yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com wrote: Heads up for those running Maverick. With the arrival of the new X-server things could go a bit awry, if you are not careful. I’ve already messed one installation up. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1549195