Lost my X

[Rajinder Yadav]

john.moniz-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org wrote:
> I lost X on my main PC. It was working fine one day; the next day (after 
> shutting it down for the night) it would only boot to terminal mode. 
> What I recall doing the previous day was to install "cheese " for a 
> webcam I was trying out and also doing some security updates.
> 
> I found the error messages to do with the problem, but don't understand 
> them enough to fix it. It's on a Mandriva 2009 box. The video card is OK 
> as I can boot to X with Knoppix.
> 
> Below is a summary of the error messages I got from Xorg.0.log and 
> dmesg, in case anyone can help:
> 
> Messages from dmesg:
> <snip>
> NVRM: API mismatch: the client has the version 173.14.09, but
> NVRM: this kernel module has the version 100.14.19.  Please
> NVRM: make sure that this kernel module and all NVIDIA driver
> NVRM: components have the same version.
> <snip>
> bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6>...found (800x600, 
> 14966 bytes, v3).
> bootsplash: status on console 0 changed to on
> <the above two bootsplash lines are printed for consoles 0 to 5>
> <snip>
> <the messages below appear after every "startx" command>
> NVRM: API mismatch: the client has the version 173.14.09, but
> NVRM: this kernel module has the version 100.14.19.  Please
> NVRM: make sure that this kernel module and all NVIDIA driver
> NVRM: components have the same version.
> 
> Messages from Xorg.0.log:
> <snip>
> (II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver  173.14.09  Wed Jun  4 23:47:25 PDT 2008
> (II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs
> (II) Primary Device is: PCI 00:0d:0
> (--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device
> (--) Chipset NVIDIA GPU found
> <snip>
> (==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888
> (==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
> (==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
> (**) NVIDIA(0): Option "RenderAccel" "false"
> (**) NVIDIA(0): Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals"
> (**) NVIDIA(0): Disabling RENDER acceleration
> (II) NVIDIA(0): Support for GLX with the Damage and Composite X 
> extensions is
> (II) NVIDIA(0):     enabled.
> (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics device!
> (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
> (II) UnloadModule: "wfb"
> (II) UnloadModule: "fb"
> (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
> 
> Fatal server error:
> no screens found
> 
> Thanks for any direction to resolve this. I've been at it Thursday and 
> am no further ahead.
> 
> John.

I'm taking a guess here, but you may need to rebuild your driver.

if you don't know what drive you need, open your case and take a look at 
what the model is.  download the driver source-code for that family. the 
process is fairly straight forward. If I recall it's a menu driven build.

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

try darryl option first, if that works then stop =)

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Kind Regards,
Rajinder Yadav

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