<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 11:55 PM, Ed <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:plug@0x1b.com" target="_blank">plug@0x1b.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div>First check if your kernel got updated - it may not have picked up/remained in sync with the options from your previous kernel. If so, try booting the old one. Life still upside-down? that was the easy path..</div>
<div><br></div>Your update left you with a video driver that can no longer find a GPU - Gnome3 requires accelerated video, the fallback looks like Gnome2. The video and mixed-up keyboard(s) leads me to think you are going to have to clean out your borked* /etc/X11/xorg.conf & friends. I would put what you have aside and try a clean regeneration of your X - once you get it restored to the way you like, back it up ;)<div>
*your upgrade may have saved your original xorg.conf - look for that too</div><div><br></div><div>unless debian does this differently too, Hans?<br><div><br></div></div><div>Going forward, keep in mind that tools like apt & yum support typical configurations - once you setup a complex configuration, you also need to be able to recreate it after upgrades (which tend to restore the conventional)</div>
<div><br></div><div>good luck</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Mark Phillips <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mark@phillipsmarketing.biz" target="_blank">mark@phillipsmarketing.biz</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr">I am running Debian testing on my laptop. I use my laptop in two configurations - stand alone and with an external monitor and bluetooth keyboard and mouse. Everything was working in that I could switch back and forth as needed.<div>
<br></div><div>I then had a need to write a bunch of documents/emails in German so I tried to add a German keyboard mapping and dictionary to the system. I was successful and could switch back and forth between German and English in LibreOffice and Gmail using the external keyboard.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I then ran an aptitude update and then an upgrade and the world collapsed.</div><div> </div><div>* I no longer have gnome 3, but a fall back version of gnome 2. </div><div><br></div><div>* I can type correctly with the external keyboard, but the keyboard on the laptop is all messed up. The keys do not type what is printed on the keys. </div>
<div><br></div><div>* I don't have a German keyboard mapping any more. </div><div><br></div><div>I googled for some solutions, ran some dpkg-reconfigures but I just cannot get the laptop keyboard to work properly, nor get back to gnome 3. When I run an aptitude update and then upgrade now, I get this</div>
<div><br></div><div><div># aptitude upgrade</div><div>Resolving dependencies... </div><div>open: 8922; closed: 14679; defer: 68; conflict: 194 </div><div><br></div><div>and the conflicts are never resolved - the numbers just keep changing and the cpus are pegged at 100%. </div>
<div><br></div><div>apt-get upgrade shows many packages to be upgraded, and does not report any dependency issues.</div><div><br></div><div>Should I try apt-get upgrade to see if it fixes the problem? How do I go about fixing the keyboard and gnome 3 issues?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Mark</div><div> </div></div></div>
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