New ubuntu install freezes on boot on IBM T21 laptop

[Alex Maynard]

> There was a recent upgrade from Ubuntu that broke the Xorg
> server.  Symptom is that you get "(EE) No devices detected" as
> the diagnostic when it abandons running X.  There was another
> upgrade soon afterward that fixed things, so if that's what
> happened to you, log into the console mode and run:
>
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
> sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart

Thank you.  I booted in recovery mode (which worked), updated the system
using the first two commands (it updated a lot files, & didn't seem to
have any trouble), but then the screen went blank after the last command
and again when I rebooted in standard mode.  Too bad, I was hoping this
would fix it.

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