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