I believe I am working again. For the record I'll post what I know here in the off-chance it might help someone else. A bit of a fail-ex on my part but it is working again.
Indeed, suckage might ensue. Fortunately, through dumb luck, I don't think that was the problem. At least not if I can trust motd:
As to the "new version" comment, I might have been using the wrong term. All I know is there were xserver and lightdm packages in the apt-get loadout:
Anyway. /var/logXorg.0.log wasn't much help, at least not to me. If there was something critical/fatal buried in there it wasn't obvious. X just never started or if it did, it bailed immediately afterwards. Removing and rebuilding xorg.conf didn't seem to help at all.
As a penultimate attempt I thought it might be due to lack of a monitor or dummy plug on my video cards so I connected a monitor to both cards. The result was exactly the same as before.
So finally I did an organized deinstall and reinstall of Catalyst 13.1, exactly as epixoip showed in that other post (as I had done to go from 12.8 to 13.1). That worked.
Thanks again guys.
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(02-10-2013, 01:49 PM)epixoip Wrote: that would be quite tragic
Indeed, suckage might ensue. Fortunately, through dumb luck, I don't think that was the problem. At least not if I can trust motd:
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Welcome to Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.2.0-37-generic x86_64)As to the "new version" comment, I might have been using the wrong term. All I know is there were xserver and lightdm packages in the apt-get loadout:
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xserver-xorg-core:amd64 (1.11.4-0ubuntu10.8, 1.11.4-0ubuntu10.11), xserver-common:amd64 (1.11.4-0ubuntu10.8, 1.11.4-0ubuntu10.11), lightdm:amd64 (1.2.1-0ubuntu1.1, 1.2.3-0ubuntu1), xserver-xorg-dev:amd64 (1.11.4-0ubuntu10.8, 1.11.4-0ubuntu10.11), liblightdm-gobject-1-0:amd64 (1.2.1-0ubuntu1.1, 1.2.3-0ubuntu1)
--snip--Anyway. /var/logXorg.0.log wasn't much help, at least not to me. If there was something critical/fatal buried in there it wasn't obvious. X just never started or if it did, it bailed immediately afterwards. Removing and rebuilding xorg.conf didn't seem to help at all.
As a penultimate attempt I thought it might be due to lack of a monitor or dummy plug on my video cards so I connected a monitor to both cards. The result was exactly the same as before.
So finally I did an organized deinstall and reinstall of Catalyst 13.1, exactly as epixoip showed in that other post (as I had done to go from 12.8 to 13.1). That worked.
Thanks again guys.
[BagLock reaching for the reserve handle....]