My 'new' system has a GForce GT520. I installed Debian Squeeze, installed nvidia-dkms, and upgraded to unstable. As soon as I enable the nvidia driver, though, the system become totally unresponsive. All I get is a rapidly flashing cursor and a flashing numlock. If I reboot I can get into recovery mode and switch back to the generic driver, but that only gives me 800x600.<div>
<br></div><div>I found this in xsession-errors:</div><div><br></div><div><div>/etc/gdm3/Xsession: Beginning session setup...</div><div>GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/tmp/keyring-pmldst</div><div>GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/tmp/keyring-pmldst</div>
<div>GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/tmp/keyring-pmldst</div><div>SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/keyring-pmldst/ssh</div><div>librdf warning - Model does not support contexts</div><div>librdf warning - Model does not support contexts</div><div>
librdf warning - Model does not support contexts</div><div>Window manager warning: Failed to read saved session file /home/joehill/.config/metacity/sessions/<a href="http://107e382d5a521abc3113070141156434900000021170023.ms">107e382d5a521abc3113070141156434900000021170023.ms</a>: Failed t$</div>
<div>** Message: applet now removed from the notification area</div><div>** Message: applet now embedded in the notification area</div><div>Initializing nautilus-gdu extension</div><div><br></div><div>(gnome-power-manager:2179): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed</div>
<div>** Message: applet now removed from the notification area</div><div>Shutting down nautilus-gdu extension</div><div>** Message: Got disconnected from the session message bus; retrying to reconnect every 10 seconds</div>
<div>gnome-settings-daemon: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.</div><div>** Message: <info> disconnected by the session bus.</div><div><br></div><div>polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.</div>
<div>kerneloops-applet: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.</div><div>update-notifier: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.</div><div>gdu-notification-daemon: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.</div>
<div>gnome-screensaver: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.</div><div>nm-applet: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.</div><div>system-config-printer-applet: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.</div>
<div>The application 'gnome-panel' lost its connection to the display :0;</div><div>most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed</div><div>the application.</div><div><br></div>but it looks like all that is just to do with missing panel and applets and so on.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Where else can I look for clues?</div><div><br>-- <br><div>Thomas Milne</div><br>
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