Upgrading to Kubuntu 9.10 killed xserver

[smatt454]

Hey all. So I recently upgraded to Kubuntu 9.10 on my VBox.

Now my xserver wont load at all. When I try to start the xserver manually I get

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$startx
(EE) Failed to load module "vboxyvideo" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) No drivers available

I tried installing the guest additions and they seemed to install just fine, but I rebooted and I'm still getting this problem.

I'm using VB v 3.2.10 and running it on Windows 7

[Sasquatch]

No idea what you have done, but the module 'vboxyvideo' never existed. Remove /etc/X11/xorg.conf, install the GA properly and try again. If the module is a typo, then the GA are NOT installed properly.

[smatt454]

Literally all I did was upgrade to 9.10, xorg didnt work, and then I tried to install GA.

However I moved xorg.conf to xorg.conf.bak and reinstalled GA.

KDE starts now...however I have no xorg.conf file....Idk if I like that =/...but at least the graphics work

I ran

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$ sudo updatedb
$ ls /etc/X11

And no xorg.conf, just xorg.conf.bak

[Sasquatch]

That's fine, because xorg.conf will not be used any more. Or at least, it's not a vital part. On my Linux Hosts I still have an xorg.conf but that is because of the nvidia driver that wouldn't work otherwise. The vboxvideo driver is now registered as an official X module and thus gets loaded automatically.