Bug 82653

Summary: xserver-xorg-core-lts-trusty conflicts Radeon HD 6570
Product: xorg Reporter: Glenn J Tison <glennjtison>
Component: Server/GeneralAssignee: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status: RESOLVED NOTOURBUG QA Contact: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: Other   
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Description Glenn J Tison 2014-08-15 07:09:24 UTC
xserver-xorg-core-lts-trusty conflicts with amd-catalyst-14-4-rev2-linux-x86-x86-64-may6

I have Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on an Asus M5a97r2.0 Motherboard  and a 6 core AMDfx6100 CPU with 2 radeon HD 6570 with 2gig of memory each running a syntax display at 1250x720 pixels

I got a notice from my update manager that a hardware update that a new hardware suport update was available and 'highly recomended'.  

I ran it and amoung other things, it proceded to uninstall  the catalyst driver, and the image that came up was all sparkles and unstable, so I backed up to the last stable build in the recovery window.  (The recovery mode for the new build did not work- no video)


I serched for the fglrx packages first from ubuntu repository: 
http://ppa.launchpad.net/xorg-edgers/ppa/ubuntu
and attempted to install it with apt-get
This gave a cascading list of dependencies which could not be met,due to a conflict with xserver-xorg-core. (I did not copy this, unfortunately)

I went to the Radeon support site and downloaded amd-catalyst-14-4-rev2-linux-x86-x86-64-may6, and this loaded and worked very well  

Next day I again ran update, as prompted, which loaded the xserver-xorg-core-lts-trusty, the core server as well as xserver-comon-lts-trusty, various c library functions,dkrms, libcairo-gobject2. libcairo2, libglu1-mesa, ligglu1-mesa:i386, libpciaccess0, libpciaccess0:i386, & linux-firmware.

I was again prompted to do another  update, generic linux kernal 3.8 was installed (I had the 3.5 kernel previously)

On the next reboot, I had no video at all.  There is a fleeting message on the screen before it goes black, but does not stay long enough to read. 

3.8 recovery mode fails, no video 

I went back to the generic 3.5 linux to report this. Thus, I can't do dmesg .  I know I have roled back x server update, because that update is again suggesting itself to me. 

I tried running the xubuntu-14.04-desktop-amd64.iso live distro, but this also gave me a black screen, so I think it is a conflict going forward in this distro, or with x11.
Comment 1 Alan Coopersmith 2014-08-15 15:02:33 UTC
You need to report this to your distro or package provider.
Xorg upstream does not provide binary packages, and we've never shipped
anything named "xserver-xorg-core-lts-trusty".

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