Debian upgrade breaks nVidia support

[William O'Higgins Witteman]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 10:18:33PM -0400, JoeHill wrote:
 
>> 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.

nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 Kernel Module  1.0-8776  Mon Oct 16
21:56:04 PDT 2006

So, it does seem to be running that module (lsmod confirms)
-- 

yours,

William

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