madbiologist, please do not solicit Ubuntu Community members to submit attachments to this report, as this report is about " fglrx-updates broken dependency with xorg-video-abi-12 (Quantal)".
Instead, we would want Jaromir Obr to file a new report by executing the following in a terminal: ubuntu-bug compiz For more on this, please see the Ubuntu Bug Control and Ubuntu Bug Squad article: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/BestPractices#X.2BAC8-Reporting.Focus_on_One_Issue and Ubuntu Community article: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#Bug_Reporting_Etiquette Thank you for your understanding. Helpful Bug Reporting Links: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#A3._Make_sure_the_bug_hasn.27t_already_been_reported https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#Adding_Apport_Debug_Information_to_an_Existing_Launchpad_Bug https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#Adding_Additional_Attachments_to_an_Existing_Launchpad_Bug -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to fglrx-installer in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1032672 Title: fglrx-updates broken dependency with xorg-video-abi-12 (Quantal) Status in NVIDIA Drivers Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “fglrx-installer” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “fglrx-installer-updates” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: fglrx needs updated in quantal for the xserver 1.13 API. [Workaround] Use the FOSS -ati driver. [Original Report] I run updates today on my quantal box. I have a ATI Madison [Radeon HD 5000M Series] and the updates removes the xserver-xorg-video-radeon and xserver-xorg-video-ati When I restart, all xserver is broken because /usr/bin/X cannot be found. I even don't have vesa or fbdev for start with "startx" command. I install with recovery mode xserver-xorg-video-vesa and xserver-xorg- video-fbdev and now I have a crappy 1024 resolution and no second monitor support. If I install the packages xserver-xorg-video-radeon and xserver-xorg- video-ati I still have the same problem. So I try to install fglrx-updates, and it conflicts with a dependency of a virtual package that it is not provided anymore sudo apt-get install fglrx-updates fglrx-amdcccle-updates Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: fglrx-updates : Depends: xorg-video-abi-12 E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. sudo apt-get install xorg-video-abi-12 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package xorg-video-abi-12 is a virtual package provided by: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.12.1.902-1ubuntu1 [Not candidate version] E: Package 'xorg-video-abi-12' has no installation candidate ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: fglrx-updates (not installed) ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-7.7-generic 3.5.0 Uname: Linux 3.5.0-7-generic i686 ApportVersion: 2.4-0ubuntu6 Architecture: i386 Date: Fri Aug 3 16:54:41 2012 InstallationMedia: ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: fglrx-installer-updates UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-06-05 (59 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nvidia-drivers-ubuntu/+bug/1032672/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp