Re: X error after dist-upgrade
j-debian_lists@rabid-hamster.com wrote:
I ran an apt-get dist-upgrade last night (amd64 testing) and now X errors on
me saying (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0)
But when I run lsmod it's still there. I've tried rebooting, unloading &
reloading the module, and even installing a newer kernel
(2.6.15-1-em64t-p4-smp...I was on 2.6.12), but I still can't get X to start
properly.
Any suggestions?
Did your upgrade include changes to Xorg and its libraries? If so then you could
try to rebuild the nvidia module. (You don't mention that in your mail.) I have
found that my nvidia module breaks with almost every upgrade of Xorg. (This was
not the case with XFree86.) Sometimes X still works, but direct rendering can no
longer be enabled, and sometimes X does not start up at all. So far I could
always fix these problems by re-running the nvidia-installer script; I assume
that the module-wrapper needs to be recompiled against the newer versions of the
X libraries. I cannot promise you anything for amd64 (I am on i686), but maybe
it is worth a try.
Regards,
Florian
P.S. Only after typing this I realized that you mention trying out a new kernel,
therefore you probably did recompile the module-wrapper already. It might
nevertheless be worthwhile to try again with the old kernel. (There might be
some unrelated issue with 2.6.15 and the nvidia module.)
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