nvidia 6106 & kernel 2.6.7--X, screen dies, no obvious errors
Hi,
I'm taking the plunge into 2.6 territory and just rolled my first 2.6.7
last night. I used the latest available Sid components for the nvidia
driver module (6106), including nvidia-glx. module-init-tools has been
installed, and I've verified that tls has a link to libGl.so set up
when booting to this kernel. The X config file is properly commented
(I've been using the card for a while). Some installed packages are
listed at the end of this post.
When I attempt to start up X, I get no nvidia splash screen, instead
seeing the screen go totally black, then the backlight begins to glow a
bit. Changing to console gives very dim text, and seeing keyboard input
requires switching consoles then back to see changes. 'reset' does
nothing. It gets worse if I attempt to restart X again. I currently
reboot to clear things up.
The X logfile shows no errors with the nvidia driver lines, and the
last thing seen is the following:
...
(II) Initializing built-in extension RENDER
(II) Initializing built-in extension RANDR
(II) Initializing extension GLX
*** If unresolved symbols were reported above, they might not
*** be the reason for the server aborting.
Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11. Server aborting
...
I followed through on all other suggestions from Andre's site
(http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/installation.html) and
associated links to try to deal with this problem.
Has anyone else run into this? Nothing I've seen through Google
fits... Is it likely something to do with the glx component based on
the point at which the X startup got to??
Kenward
other packages (don't know if all are relevant):
ii libglib1.2 1.2.10-9 The GLib library of C routines
ii libglib2.0-0 2.4.4-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libglut3 3.7-25 the OpenGL Utility Toolkit
ii nvidia-glx 1.0.6106-3 NVIDIA binary XFree86 4.x driver
ii xlibmesa-gl 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 Mesa 3D graphics library [XFree86]
ii xlibmesa-glu 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 Mesa OpenGL utility library [XFree86]
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii module-init-to 3.1-pre5-2 tools for managing Linux kernel modules
ii nvidia-kernel- 1.0.6106-3+cus NVIDIA binary kernel module for Linux 2.4.26
ii nvidia-kernel- 1.0.6106-3+cus NVIDIA binary kernel module for Linux 2.6.7
ii nvidia-kernel- 1.0.6106-1 NVIDIA binary kernel module common files
ii nvidia-kernel- 1.0.6106-3 NVIDIA binary kernel module source
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