<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 8:04 AM, Thomas Milne <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thomas.bruce.milne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org">thomas.bruce.milne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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" target="_blank">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></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Xorg.log shows:</div><div><br></div><div> </div></div><div>(II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Module class: X.Org Video Driver</div><div>
(EE) NVIDIA: Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module. Please check your</div><div>(EE) NVIDIA: system's kernel log for additional error messages.</div><div>(II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"</div><div>(II) Unloading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so</div>
<div>(EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module-specific error, 0)</div><div>(EE) No drivers available.</div><div><br></div><div>Fatal server error:</div><div>no screens found</div><div><br></div><div>So it's the same old problem...</div>
<div><br></div><div>This is what I have installed:</div><div><br></div><div><div>joehill@rebelone:~$ dpkg --get-selections | grep nvidia</div><div>libgl1-nvidia-alternatives<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>install</div>
<div>libgl1-nvidia-glx<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>install</div><div>libglx-nvidia-alternatives<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>install</div><div>nvidia-glx<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>install</div>
<div>nvidia-installer-cleanup<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>install</div><div>nvidia-kernel-common<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>install</div><div>nvidia-kernel-dkms<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>install</div>
<div>nvidia-settings<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>install</div><div>nvidia-support<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>install</div><div>nvidia-vdpau-driver<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>install</div>
<div>nvidia-xconfig<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>install</div></div><div><br></div><div>Then I realized I did not have nvidia-kernel-source, so I installed that. Now...do I need to manually build the module now? Dammit, why can I never get this process right? </div>
<div><br>-- <br><div>Thomas Milne</div><br>
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