borked 804-904 upgrade [[[[!!!SOLVED!!!]]]]

[tom_d]

Re: borked 804-904 upgrade

Yes, this is a known bug, unfortunately, and many people have had horrible issues with it
Here is how _I_ fixed it:
Hope this fixes your issue!

I'll give it a try next time I'm home
more later!

[tom_d]

Re: borked 804-904 upgrade

Hope this fixes your issue!

aticonfig:
unable to open /etc/ati/control
please reinstall the driver
aticonfig: no supported adaptors detected

so back to the akamai package and try it again

[lmilano]

Re: borked 804-904 upgrade

Make sure, once you find these debs, to run dpkg -i *deb
Maybe do it twice, look for errors!

[tom_d]

Re: borked 804-904 upgrade

Make sure, once you find these debs, to run dpkg -i *deb
Maybe do it twice, look for errors!

I went digging through --help again, and this time I tried

 buildandinstallpkg Ubuntu/jaunty

(earlier this morning, and I may not be remembering it all- but did as it told me) It whipped right through, not an error in site until it was all through, then bang:

unable to open /etc/ati/control
please reinstall the driver
aticonfig: no supported adaptors detected

I just went through the ATI site, and it definitely says it supports my HD2600Pro card.

So I'm boggled. The only other card I have available is also ATI, and it's a five hour roundtrip drive to the nearest nVidia card

[lmilano]

Re: borked 804-904 upgrade

This file is provided by xorg-driver-fglrx:

lmilano@grisell:~$ dpkg -S /etc/ati/control
xorg-driver-fglrx: /etc/ati/control

Can you run the following command? (I show my output so you can compare)

lmilano@grisell:~$ dpkg --get-selections |grep fglrx
fglrx-amdcccle                 install
fglrx-kernel-source               install
fglrx-modaliases                install
xorg-driver-fglrx                install

[tom_d]

Re: borked 804-904 upgrade

~$ dpkg -S /etc/ati/control
xorg-driver-fglrx: /etc/ati/control

mine says exactly the same

Can you run the following command? (I show my output so you can compare)

~$ dpkg --get-selections |grep fglrx
fglrx-amdcccle                install
fglrx-kernel-source            install
fglrx-modaliases               install
xorg-driver-fglrx              install

mine:

~$ dpkg --get-selections |grep fglrx
fglrx-amdcccle                 install
fglrx-kernel-source             install
fglrx-modaliases               install
xorg-driver-fglrx                install
xorg-driver-fglrx-dev            install
xorg-driver-fglrx-envy           deinstall

rebooted to default (ie without recovery mode) the blue progress bar gets about 1/4 across, hangs, dumps me to white text on black b/g for the rest of the startup, flashes the red 'video mode not supported' for a split second, then displays a block of blue and white smear-ey pixels for the bottom 15% of the screen, and a bar of scattered purplish pixels about two cm wide down 15% from the top.

[lmilano]

Re: borked 804-904 upgrade

arrgg. This envy thing could be trouble. I would purge it from the system.

sudo apt-get remove --purge xorg-driver-fglrx-envy

I hope _that_ helps, then I would reinstall these packages. The file

/etc/ati/control

should be there! Make sure you use sudo for all these things, or run "sudo -i" to become superuser (root)

[tom_d]

Re: borked 804-904 upgrade

arrgg. This envy thing could be trouble. I would purge it from the system.
sudo apt-get remove --purge xorg-driver-fglrx-envy

And Ye Electron Goddess sez:
"is not installed, so not removed"

I hope _that_ helps

what _She_ sez ... :-)

then I would reinstall these packages. The file
/etc/ati/control
should be there!

well, I redid the install, same error, and it's not there- there are about 10 or 12 files, one of which is control.dpkg.bak, but that's it for files starting with "c"

Make sure you use sudo for all these things, or run "sudo -i" to become superuser (root)

I'm at root prompt in recovery mode ... sudo doesn't count there afaik

[lmilano]

Re: borked 804-904 upgrade

ah, in the command line ou may need to install and then purge

sudo apt-get install xorg-driver-fglrx-envy 
sudo apt-get remove --purge xorg-driver-fglrx-envy

If this works, I would then try to install all the debs for the ati driver again and see if it goes through

[tom_d]

Re: borked 804-904 upgrade

ah, in the command line ou may need to install and then purge

sudo apt-get install xorg-driver-fglrx-envy 
sudo apt-get remove --purge xorg-driver-fglrx-envy

If this works, I would then try to install all the debs for the ati driver again and see if it goes through

it says it can't install it because the package isn't available. I did remove --purge again, updatedb and locate *envy* shows only four files, none of which look dangerous (2@ /usr/lib/python2.3, a log file, one other I can't remember.

ran buildandinstallpkg again, no difference: still trundles right through to the end, then spit out the same
unable to open /etc/ati/control
please reinstall the driver
aticonfig: no supported adaptors detected

and no, there is still no /etc/ati/control file

Sigh!

[lmilano]

Re: borked 804-904 upgrade

I think it's probably better to:

* first, purge all fglrx packages (like you tried for this one)
* run the installer and *create* (not install automatically) the packages

Make sure you do get the packages. After that:

* dpkg -i *.deb

And look at the output, and please report it. If you have a second computer where you can type while trying things, we should probably try IRC or skype one of these days (best over the weekend). I hope we can fix it before that.

[tom_d]

Re: borked 804-904 upgrade

I think it's probably better to:

* first, purge all fglrx packages (like you tried for this one)
* run the installer and *create* (not install automatically) the packages

Make sure you do get the packages. After that:

* dpkg -i *.deb

And look at the output, and please report it. If you have a second computer where you can type while trying things, we should probably try IRC or skype one of these days (best over the weekend). I hope we can fix it before that.

I'll take a run at that on the weekend- thanks much for your help thus far!

[tom_d]

Re: borked 804-904 upgrade

I think it's probably better to:
* first, purge all fglrx packages

OK- I'm back :-)
I have run

apt-get remove --purge xorg-driver-fglrx*

it flagged fglrx-modaliases (I think??) as needing autoremove, which I did

it also flagged /usr/share/ati and /etc/ati as unremoveable as not empty, so I rm-r to both

updatedb and locate *fglrx* gives:
- numerous hits in /lib/linux-restricted-modules/2.6.24-16,19,21,22,23,24
- two in /lib/modules/2/6/24-23 and 24
- one in /lib/modules/2.6.28-13-generic/updates/dkms/fglrx.ko
- three in /usr/share/doc
- one in /usr/share/lintian/overrides/
- six in /usr/share/linux-restricted-modules/2/6/24-19.21.22 and 23
- thirty-six in /usr/src/
- well over 100 in /var/lib/dkms
- four in /var/lib/dpkg/

any that I should not nuke before I try the reinstall?

[lmilano]

Re: borked 804-904 upgrade

Hi

Please look at this whole thread, grab a coffee and read it all. I helped someone solve exactly your problem. Please read it upside down and we'll both save a ton of time.

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3105188.0

The most relevant post is this one ( I just edited it for ya )

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...9032#msg189032

This should get you going! Good luck!

[tom_d]

Re: borked 804-904 upgrade

Hi

Please look at this whole thread, grab a coffee and read it all. I helped someone solve exactly your problem. Please read it upside down and we'll both save a ton of time

and away we go ... back in a bit :-)

and a bit later:
1)

apt-get install:
- build-essential (already newest, set to manually installed)
- cdbs (already newest)
- fakeroot (already newest)
- debhelper (already newest)
- debconf (already newest)
- libstdc++5 (already newest, set to manually installed)
- dkms (already newest, set to manually installed)

it did want dh-make, which installed no errors (0.47)

2)
created (but did not run) /etc/X11/fix-this-crap.sh from
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...9032#msg189032
(btw- is line3 "aticonfig --initlal" not "--initial" ?)
and then chmod +x

3)

sh ./ati-driver-installer-9-6-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/jaunty

ran smooth, no errors, created 6 debs

4)

dpkg -i *deb

ran smooth, no errors, installed 6 debs

5)
rebooted normally, got red "video mode not supported" box

6)
rebooted restore/root
ran /etc/X11/fix-this-crap.sh (which is where I found the error about typo above)

7)
rebooted normally, got red "video mode not supported" box

8)
rebooted restore/root
ran corrected /etc/X11/fix-this-crap.sh

9)
rebooted normally, got red "video mode not supported" box

10)
rebooted restore/root
ran corrected /etc/X11/fix-this-crap.sh again:

uninitialized file found, configuring.
using xorg.conf
saved back-up to xorg.conf.fglrx-5
set key DDX, EnableRandR12
Warning: Option 'DesktopSetup' doesn't affect running session
using xorg.conf
saved back-up to xorg.conf.fglrx-6

11)
rebooted normally, still getting red "video mode not supported" box