Debian upgrade breaks nVidia support

[William O'Higgins Witteman]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 05:16:06PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 02:58:34PM -0400, Neil Watson wrote:
>> Linking solve my problem:
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      44 2007-04-28 18:34
>> /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so -> 
>> /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so
>> 
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1372276 2007-04-28 18:22 
>> /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so
>
>/usr/X11R6/lib is supposed to have gone away by now (or at least become
>only a symlink) so I would think it is a major bug in the nvidia package
>if it requires that link.

Sadly, because it means that I still don't have X with the nvidia
driver, Neil's solution does not work.  In fact, I had to create both
the modules and the drivers directories, as they did not exist on my
system.

The error message I'm getting is as follows:


xauth:  creating new authority file /home/willyyam/.serverauth.22152

X Window System Version 1.3.0
Release Date: 19 April 2007
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 1.3
Build Operating System: Linux Debian
Current Operating System: Linux $hostname 2.6.18-4-k7 #1 SMP Mon Mar 26 17:57:15 UTC 2007 i686
Build Date: 01 June 2007
	Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
	to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
	(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
	(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Tue Jun 19 19:27:57 2007
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) No drivers available.

Fatal server error:
no screens found
XIO:  fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
      after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

Any other help would be much appreciated.  Thanks.
-- 

yours,

William

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