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video degraded Ubuntu 12.04

Asked by Nolan

My color has vanished. Don't know why or what happened. See out put of console when I tried to
update my video driver.

nolan@GX520:~$ sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-intel
[sudo] password for nolan:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 xserver-xorg-video-intel : Depends: xorg-video-abi-11
                            Depends: xserver-xorg-core (>= 2:1.10.99.901)
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I than ran lspci:

nolan@GX520:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ/P/PL Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ/P/PL PCI Express Root Port (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 2 (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.3 USB controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev e1)
00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family SATA Controller [IDE mode] (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller (rev 01)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 01)
nolan@GX520:~$

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

What is the output of:

uname -a; lsb_release -a

Thanks

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Nolan (nolanzoe) said : 		#2

uname -a; lsb_release -a
nolan@GX520:~$ uname -a; lsb_release -a
Linux GX520 3.5.0-25-generic #39~precise1-Ubuntu SMP Tue Feb 26 00:11:13
UTC 2013 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
LSB Version:
core-2.0-ia32:core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-ia32:core-3.0-noarch:core-3.1-ia32:core-3.1-noarch:core-3.2-ia32:core-3.2-noarch:core-4.0-ia32:core-4.0-noarch
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise

On 03/07/2013 03:15 PM, actionparsnip wrote:
> uname -a; lsb_release -a

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Nolan (nolanzoe) said : 		#3

uname -a; lsb_release -a
nolan@GX520:~$ uname -a; lsb_release -a
Linux GX520 3.5.0-25-generic #39~precise1-Ubuntu SMP Tue Feb 26 00:11:13
UTC 2013 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
LSB Version:
core-2.0-ia32:core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-ia32:core-3.0-noarch:core-3.1-ia32:core-3.1-noarch:core-3.2-ia32:core-3.2-noarch:core-4.0-ia32:core-4.0-noarch
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise

On 03/07/2013 03:15 PM, actionparsnip wrote:
> uname -a; lsb_release -a

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

wget http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/x/xorg-server/xserver-xorg-core_1.11.4-0ubuntu10.6_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i ./xserver-xorg-core_1.11.4-0ubuntu10.6_i386.deb
sudo apt-get -f install

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Nolan (nolanzoe) said : 		#5

When I run

sudo dpkg -i ./xserver-xorg-core_1.11.4-0ubuntu10.6_i386.deb

I get the following:

root@GX520:/home/nolan# sudo dpkg -i
./xserver-xorg-core_1.11.4-0ubuntu10.6_i386.deb
dpkg: regarding .../xserver-xorg-core_1.11.4-0ubuntu10.6_i386.deb
containing xserver-xorg-core:
  xserver-xorg-core-lts-quantal conflicts with xserver-xorg-core
   xserver-xorg-core (version 2:1.11.4-0ubuntu10.6) is to be installed.
dpkg: error processing ./xserver-xorg-core_1.11.4-0ubuntu10.6_i386.deb
(--install):
  conflicting packages - not installing xserver-xorg-core
Errors were encountered while processing:
  ./xserver-xorg-core_1.11.4-0ubuntu10.6_i386.deb

On 03/07/2013 04:30 PM, actionparsnip wrote:
> sudo dpkg -i ./xserver-xorg-core_1.11.4-0ubuntu10.6_i386.deb

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Nolan (nolanzoe) said : 		#6

Yes I know..please advise.

On 03/07/2013 06:01 PM, Nolan wrote:
> Your question #223692 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/223692
>
> Status: Answered => Open
>
> You are still having a problem:
> When I run
>
> sudo dpkg -i ./xserver-xorg-core_1.11.4-0ubuntu10.6_i386.deb
>
> I get the following:
>
> root@GX520:/home/nolan# sudo dpkg -i
> ./xserver-xorg-core_1.11.4-0ubuntu10.6_i386.deb
> dpkg: regarding .../xserver-xorg-core_1.11.4-0ubuntu10.6_i386.deb
> containing xserver-xorg-core:
> xserver-xorg-core-lts-quantal conflicts with xserver-xorg-core
> xserver-xorg-core (version 2:1.11.4-0ubuntu10.6) is to be installed.
> dpkg: error processing ./xserver-xorg-core_1.11.4-0ubuntu10.6_i386.deb
> (--install):
> conflicting packages - not installing xserver-xorg-core
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> ./xserver-xorg-core_1.11.4-0ubuntu10.6_i386.deb
>
>
>
>
> On 03/07/2013 04:30 PM, actionparsnip wrote:
>> sudo dpkg -i ./xserver-xorg-core_1.11.4-0ubuntu10.6_i386.deb
>
> --
>

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Nolan (nolanzoe) said : 		#7

I ran the following:

root@GX520:~# sudo apt-get -o Debug::pkgProblemResolver=yes dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Starting
Starting 2
Done
Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
root@GX520:~# wget http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/x/xorg-server/xserver-xorg-core_1.11.4-0ubuntu10.6_i386.deb
--2013-03-09 11:21:37-- http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/x/xorg-server/xserver-xorg-core_1.11.4-0ubuntu10.6_i386.deb
Resolving security.ubuntu.com (security.ubuntu.com)... 91.189.91.13, 91.189.92.200
Connecting to security.ubuntu.com (security.ubuntu.com)|91.189.91.13|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1675474 (1.6M) [application/x-debian-package]
Saving to: `xserver-xorg-core_1.11.4-0ubuntu10.6_i386.deb.1'

100%[======================================>] 1,675,474 2.10M/s in 0.8s

2013-03-09 11:21:38 (2.10 MB/s) - `xserver-xorg-core_1.11.4-0ubuntu10.6_i386.deb.1' saved [1675474/1675474]

root@GX520:~# sudo dpkg -i ./xserver-xorg-core_1.11.4-0ubuntu10.6_i386.deb
dpkg: regarding .../xserver-xorg-core_1.11.4-0ubuntu10.6_i386.deb containing xserver-xorg-core:
 xserver-xorg-core-lts-quantal conflicts with xserver-xorg-core
  xserver-xorg-core (version 2:1.11.4-0ubuntu10.6) is to be installed.
dpkg: error processing ./xserver-xorg-core_1.11.4-0ubuntu10.6_i386.deb (--install):
 conflicting packages - not installing xserver-xorg-core
Errors were encountered while processing:
 ./xserver-xorg-core_1.11.4-0ubuntu10.6_i386.deb

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Nolan (nolanzoe) said : 		#8

No body has responded to me since March 9. I solved the problem myself. I reinstalled the video driver and reseated the connections on my monitor.