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Thanks Darryl...<br><br>> Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2009 13:32:08 -0500<br>> From: darryl-90a536wCiRb3fQ9qLvQP4Q@public.gmane.org<br>> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4@public.gmane.org<br>> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Lost my X<br>> <br>> Are you sure you didn't install a kernel upgrade too?<br><br>I'm fairly sure. I certainly didn't do it consciously and didn't notice any kernel files during any update installs.<br><br>> <br>> Try rebooting and press <ESC> as it boots. Then you can tell grub to run<br>> the previous kernel instead.<br><br>Booting to a previous kernel didn't change anything. I tried a couple of kernel versions.<br><br>> <br>> Alternatively you can edit you X windows configuration file with nano<br>> and change the line which says:<br>> Driver nvidia<br>> and change it to:<br>> Driver nv<br>> <br>> This will disable 3d acceleration.<br><br>This did something. It went into X, but I never got a desktop - just a blank screen with the cursor and the spinning hour glass going on forever. The desktop login audio file played, but no desktop.<br>> <br>> To get your latest kernel to work with your 3d driver you may also need<br>> to run a program called nvidia-xconfig.<br><br>I ran nvidia-xconfig. One thing it did was to change the Driver from nv back to nvidia. It also overwrote my config backup file that I had made by giving it the same name. Gotta be careful with that one. Anyway, the change brought it right back to square one. I changed the Driver back to nv in the config file and it's back to having X with no desktop.<br><br>> <br>> Hope that helps.<br>> marry xmas --> you too! and happy new year.<br>> darryl<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>John<br><br>> <br>> <br>> john.moniz@sympatico.ca wrote:<br>> > I lost X on my main PC. It was working fine one day; the next day (after<br>> > shutting it down for the night) it would only boot to terminal mode.<br>> > What I recall doing the previous day was to install "cheese " for a<br>> > webcam I was trying out and also doing some security updates.<br>> > <br>> > I found the error messages to do with the problem, but don't understand<br>> > them enough to fix it. It's on a Mandriva 2009 box. The video card is OK<br>> > as I can boot to X with Knoppix.<br>> > <br>> > Below is a summary of the error messages I got from Xorg.0.log and<br>> > dmesg, in case anyone can help:<br>> > <br>> > Messages from dmesg:<br>> > <snip><br>> > NVRM: API mismatch: the client has the version 173.14.09, but<br>> > NVRM: this kernel module has the version 100.14.19. Please<br>> > NVRM: make sure that this kernel module and all NVIDIA driver<br>> > NVRM: components have the same version.<br>> > <snip><br>> > bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6>...found (800x600,<br>> > 14966 bytes, v3).<br>> > bootsplash: status on console 0 changed to on<br>> > <the above two bootsplash lines are printed for consoles 0 to 5><br>> > <snip><br>> > <the messages below appear after every "startx" command><br>> > NVRM: API mismatch: the client has the version 173.14.09, but<br>> > NVRM: this kernel module has the version 100.14.19. Please<br>> > NVRM: make sure that this kernel module and all NVIDIA driver<br>> > NVRM: components have the same version.<br>> > <br>> > Messages from Xorg.0.log:<br>> > <snip><br>> > (II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver 173.14.09 Wed Jun 4 23:47:25 PDT 2008<br>> > (II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs<br>> > (II) Primary Device is: PCI 00:0d:0<br>> > (--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device<br>> > (--) Chipset NVIDIA GPU found<br>> > <snip><br>> > (==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888<br>> > (==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor<br>> > (==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)<br>> > (**) NVIDIA(0): Option "RenderAccel" "false"<br>> > (**) NVIDIA(0): Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals"<br>> > (**) NVIDIA(0): Disabling RENDER acceleration<br>> > (II) NVIDIA(0): Support for GLX with the Damage and Composite X<br>> > extensions is<br>> > (II) NVIDIA(0): enabled.<br>> > (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics device!<br>> > (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"<br>> > (II) UnloadModule: "wfb"<br>> > (II) UnloadModule: "fb"<br>> > (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.<br>> > <br>> > Fatal server error:<br>> > no screens found<br>> > <br>> > Thanks for any direction to resolve this. I've been at it Thursday and<br>> > am no further ahead.<br>> > <br>> > John.<br>> --<br>> The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://gtalug.org/<br>> TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns<br>> How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists<br> </body>
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