Upgrading to Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala breaks X (xorg) on intel driver on 945G chipset
Posted by Admin • Monday, November 2. 2009 • Category: Linux
After upgrading my IBM desktop with "82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller" X stopped working entirely, regardless of any changes to xorg.conf. Running startx manually revealed an error like this:
(EE) Failed to load module "i810" (module does not exist, 0) (EE) open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory (EE) intel(0): [drm] Failed to open DRM device for : No such file or directory (EE) intel(0): Failed to become DRM master.
Took me a little while to figure out how to get me my machine back:
