Debian upgrade breaks nVidia support

[Jamon Camisso]

William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
> 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.

You mentioned you'd recompiled from nvidia's driver, where is nvidia.ko 
located? Try insmodding that and starting X, see what error you get then.

Jamon
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