NVidia driver failure on new system

[Thomas Milne]

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Lennart Sorensen <
lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 08:04:54AM -0400, Thomas Milne wrote:
> > My 'new' system has a GForce GT520. I installed Debian Squeeze, installed
> > nvidia-dkms, and upgraded to unstable. As soon as I enable the nvidia
> > driver, though, the system become totally unresponsive. All I get is a
> > rapidly flashing cursor and a flashing numlock. If I reboot I can get
> into
> > recovery mode and switch back to the generic driver, but that only gives
> me
> > 800x600.
>
> The nvidia-glx package blacklists the neuvoue driver that the kernel
> provides since they conflict.  If you remove nvidia-glx it should
> come back.
>
> Did you use nvidia-xconfig to configure the xorg.conf file?  Did you
> reboot after installing nvidia-kernel-dkms?  Both are required.
>
>
Yeah, I did both. I think I have mismatched kernel and headers.


> > I found this in xsession-errors:
>
> You need /var/log/Xorg.0.log
>
> > /etc/gdm3/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
> > GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/tmp/keyring-pmldst
> > GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/tmp/keyring-pmldst
> > GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/tmp/keyring-pmldst
> > SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/keyring-pmldst/ssh
> > librdf warning - Model does not support contexts
> > librdf warning - Model does not support contexts
> > librdf warning - Model does not support contexts
> > Window manager warning: Failed to read saved session file
> > /home/joehill/.config/metacity/sessions/
> > 107e382d5a521abc3113070141156434900000021170023.ms: Failed t$
> > ** Message: applet now removed from the notification area
> > ** Message: applet now embedded in the notification area
> > Initializing nautilus-gdu extension
> >
> > (gnome-power-manager:2179): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref:
> > assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
> > ** Message: applet now removed from the notification area
> > Shutting down nautilus-gdu extension
> > ** Message: Got disconnected from the session message bus; retrying to
> > reconnect every 10 seconds
> > gnome-settings-daemon: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily
> unavailable)
> > on X server :0.
> > ** Message: <info>  disconnected by the session bus.
> >
> > polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource
> temporarily
> > unavailable) on X server :0.
> > kerneloops-applet: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable)
> on X
> > server :0.
> > update-notifier: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on
> X
> > server :0.
> > gdu-notification-daemon: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily
> > unavailable) on X server :0.
> > gnome-screensaver: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable)
> on X
> > server :0.
> > nm-applet: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X
> server
> > :0.
> > system-config-printer-applet: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily
> > unavailable) on X server :0.
> > The application 'gnome-panel' lost its connection to the display :0;
> > most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed
> > the application.
> >
> > but it looks like all that is just to do with missing panel and applets
> and
> > so on.
> >
> > Where else can I look for clues?
>
> No idea about that bit.
>
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Thomas Milne
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