On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 02:47:56PM -0800, Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: > [This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] > A colleague did a dist-upgrade, sarge to etch, and everything > still worked except the X Window System. dpkg-reconfigure > left him with "No screens found" X unusable. > The standard fix for that, boot Knoppix and use the xorg.conf > file it generates, worked, except his mouse was dead. > > Turns out the dist-upgrade brought in udev and hal and > module-init-tools, but no new kernel image. He was > still running the 2.4 Sarge kernel, no udev, no > hardware abstraction layer. > > apt-get install linux-image-2.6-486 > update-grub > > fixed the problem. Is dist-upgrade supposed to bring > in the right kernel/initrd? > IIRC, the release notes say to first get to a 2.6 kernel, then upgrade aptitude, then do the full ball of wax.
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