Re: Suddenly no X-window
I see the NVIDIA logo then it tries to change but immediately
quits, that is it switches back to VGA terminal mode
The lines I gave were from the messages on screen
They were not in XFree86.0.log because they are from KDE and
not from X
Effectively, X only runs long enough for the Nvidia logo
to display
On Sunday 28 March 2004 11:15 pm, Duraid Madina wrote:
> What precisely do you mean by "X starts, but KDE will not run?" I'm
> assuming:
>
> - You see the NVIDIA splash screen (logo on white)
> - This screen changes to some other screen (presumably a login screen)
> - KDE tries to do something, and this doesn't work (from what you've
> pasted, it looks like it crashes the X server?)
>
> Is this right?
>
> A bit puzzled,
>
> Duraid
>
> Richard Harke wrote:
> > On Friday 26 March 2004 01:57 pm, David Mosberger wrote:
> >>>>>>>On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 19:36:55 +1100, Duraid Madina
> >>>>>>><duraid@octopus.com.au> said:
> >>
> >> Duraid> You'll probably want to use a newer nvidia driver (from
> >> Duraid> nvidia.com) or move libc back down. I don't think you have
> >> Duraid> any other choices.
> >>
> >>A word of warning with the nvidia driver: it's important to use the
> >>driver with a "matching" XFree86 server. AFAIK, the current nvidia
> >>drivers work with all version of XFree86 v4.3.x, but NOT with v4.4.x.
> >>Apparently, there is some version-checking support in the X server
> >>which could detect such mismatches, but the nvidia driver doesn't seem
> >>to do that and as a result, it will load into XFree86 v4.4.xx just
> >>fine, except that it will then sooner or later crash with a segfault.
> >>
> >> --david
> >
> > Well, I went to a newer nvidia driver, 1.0-5336
> > (NVIDIA-Linux-ia64-1.0-5336-pkg1.run there was also a "pkg0"
> > version in the ftp archive, but I guess that was an oops)
> >
> > Now X starts but KDE will not run
> >
> > (II) Initializing extension GLX
> > startkde: Starting up...
> > /usr/X11R6/bin/kde: line 143: 14986 Segmentation fault kreadconfig
> > --file kpersonalizerrc --group General --key FirstLogin --default true
> > --type bool
> > _X11TransOpen: Unable to find transport for local
> > ksplash: cannot connect to X server :0
> > Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory
> > ksmserver: cannot connect to X server :0
> > startkde: Shutting down...
> > Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory
> > Error: Can't contact kdeinit!
> > startkde: Running shutdown scripts...
> > startkde: Done.
> >
> > I think that the _X11TransOpen failure is the key one but I
> > don't understand what it means precisely. There were
> > messages during boot up about "no response from
> > localhost" Does that mean that some demon is not running??
> > I can ping localhost and a lot of others. Also, ftp to nvidia and
> > apt-get to debian have worked fine.
> >
> > Richard Harke
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