I absent-mindly let the auto-upgrade for Ubuntu Edgy upgrade x-server, VO no longer works. VO worked fine prior to that. I highly suspect Ubuntu is having another Aug 06 episode.

Attempts to rollback the downgrade failed. I then tried upgrading to Feisty, that failed as well leaving me with a boot screen that won't recognize keyboard input...

Seeing as how ubuntu seemed to be the only linux release I could find that worked with my usb joysticks (Saitek x52s), my SATA drives, and striped raid on IDE,... I'm kinda fuxxorr'd.

Any advice or suggestions? I'd prefer to run a 64 bit os (was running 32 bit ubuntu as the 64 bit ver was highly unstable with my joysticks). I'd really don't want to go back to XP64 but it's looking like I have no other choice?

What error msgs you got?

If youre using nvidia try reinstalling the drivers. Any Xorg upgrade/update might just have deleted your libGL.

Dunno whats the ATI way but i guess is similar.

Wish I'd have thought of that, lol. Too late now though. I'm partway through a gentoo 64bit install. Hopefully I'll be up and running by tomorrow.

I run Edgy with Xorg 7.2 and Feisty on another machine, and every time xorg was updated, the gl libraries were deleted. Just reinstalled the nVidia driver and all came back to normal.

Just for added info here, I experienced the same problem with my Edgy install. It wasn't just VO that died (although that was the main motivation for fixing it) but all of my 3d.

Initially started with the old 'screens found but none in a usable configuration' error and when I changed the xorg.conf entry to 'vesa' I at least got x up and running again.

I used Envy (http://albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html) to install the nvidia drivers which I have to say it did beautifully.

At this stage while I was booting up I was getting the nvidia splash screen but still had no working 3d. If I typed 'glxgears' into a terminal I ended up getting an error 'file libGL.so.1' does not exist.

A little bit of investigation showed that the file libGL.so.9631 existed and in fact what needed to happen was a symlink needed to be placed in the appropriate directory and pointing at the libGL which equated to the version of nvidia drivers for my card. Turns out that when X was updated, that symlink was removed, which was the cause of quite a lot of these problems.

Hope that helps. I may have the exact names of these files slightly wrong, but I don't think I do. In any case, it gives you something to search for if nothing else, particularly if the symptoms match.

cheers,

Jahn Pretetia