Debian upgrade breaks nVidia support

[JoeHill]

William O'Higgins Witteman left a post-it on the fridge:

> 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.

What does dmesg have to say about nvidia?

dmesg | egrep -i nvidia

If nothing, maybe just try loading the module manually.

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