Just in order to test and for no better reason (my system with Intel i845 was working pretty well without Compiz), I decided to try the latest drivers by adding to my sources.list the following lines and upgrading:
Not a good idea, because when I booted up after the upgrade and arrived at the GDM screen, all I could see was a blank screen with faint Ubuntuish colours and no login text box, keyboard dead but mouse cursor visible. Keyboard not responding, I had to hard-reset the machine.
Just in order to test and for no better reason (my system with Intel i845 was working pretty well without Compiz), I decided to try the latest drivers by adding to my sources.list the following lines and upgrading:
deb http:// ppa.launchpad. net/xorg- edgers/ ubuntu intrepid main ppa.launchpad. net/xorg- edgers/ ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://
Not a good idea, because when I booted up after the upgrade and arrived at the GDM screen, all I could see was a blank screen with faint Ubuntuish colours and no login text box, keyboard dead but mouse cursor visible. Keyboard not responding, I had to hard-reset the machine.
This is what I get in Xorg.0.log:
... bin/X(xorg_ backtrace+ 0x3b) [0x813164b] bin/X(mieqEnque ue+0x237) [0x8110ba7] bin/X(xf86PostM otionEventP+ 0xc2) [0x80d3ac2] bin/X(xf86PostM otionEvent+ 0x68) [0x80d3c28] xorg/modules/ input// evdev_drv. so [0xaf7aff91] libdrm. so.2(drmCommand Write+0x3b) [0xb7b5be5b] xorg/modules/ drivers/ /intel_ drv.so( I830Sync+ 0xd5) [0xb7af2535] xorg/modules/ drivers/ /intel_ drv.so [0xb7b1ca3a] xorg/modules/ /libexa. so(exaWaitSync+ 0x65) [0xb7a1a195] xorg/modules/ /libexa. so(ExaDoPrepare Access+ 0x7e) [0xb7a1b3be] xorg/modules/ /libexa. so [0xb7a200f2] xorg/modules/ /libexa. so [0xb7a20619] xorg/modules/ /libexa. so(exaDoMigrati on+0x64a) [0xb7a20dda] xorg/modules/ /libexa. so(exaCopyNtoN+ 0x3eb) [0xb7a1de3b] xorg/modules/ /libexa. so(exaComposite +0x856) [0xb7a23076] bin/X(Composite Picture+ 0x19a) [0x816056a] xorg/modules/ /libexa. so [0xb7a1e96d] xorg/modules/ /libexa. so(exaGlyphs+ 0x4f2) [0xb7a1f412] bin/X(Composite Glyphs+ 0xa2) [0x815c9f2] bin/X(Dispatch+ 0x34f) [0x808c8ef] bin/X(main+ 0x47d) [0x8071d6d] i686/cmov/ libc.so. 6(__libc_ start_main+ 0xe5) [0xb7c9a685]
Backtrace:
0: /usr/X11R6/
1: /usr/X11R6/
2: /usr/X11R6/
3: /usr/X11R6/
4: /usr/lib/
5: /usr/X11R6/bin/X [0x80c9577]
6: /usr/X11R6/bin/X [0x80b246c]
7: [0xb8098400]
8: /usr/lib/
9: /usr/lib/
10: /usr/lib/
11: /usr/lib/
12: /usr/lib/
13: /usr/lib/
14: /usr/lib/
15: /usr/lib/
16: /usr/lib/
17: /usr/lib/
18: /usr/X11R6/bin/X [0x8177ada]
19: /usr/X11R6/
20: /usr/lib/
21: /usr/lib/
22: /usr/X11R6/bin/X [0x8177da5]
23: /usr/X11R6/
24: /usr/X11R6/bin/X [0x8169d5e]
25: /usr/X11R6/bin/X [0x8163155]
26: /usr/X11R6/
27: /usr/X11R6/
28: /lib/tls/
29: /usr/X11R6/bin/X [0x8071151]
ERROR: Server Lockup! Stuck in an infinite loop. See backtrace above.
ERROR: Server Lockup! Stuck in an infinite loop. See backtrace above.
...
[etc; the last line repeated hundreds of times.]
I know this might not be the best place to ask such a silly question, but how do I revert back to the working version of the Xorg drivers...?