Re: Nvidia Driver Problems
On Sunday 02 July 2006 15:54, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 13:41:22 +0300, David Baron wrote:
> > After attempting to use Debian's version which crashed when trying to run
> > any DRI application, I returned to the same version number from Nvidia.
> > Works fine ... until the next bootup in which case the X simply does not
> > start up. The log reveals a nearly complete sequence, no errors. The
> > bootup logcheck may show:
> > Jul 2 13:10:57 d_baron kdm: :0[4689]: IO Error in XOpenDisplay
> > Jul 2 13:10:57 d_baron kdm[4644]: X server for display :0 terminated
> > unexpectedly
> > Jul 2 13:10:57 d_baron kdm[4644]: Display :0 cannot be opened
> > Jul 2 13:10:57 d_baron kdm[4644]: Unable to fire up local display :0;
> > disabling.
> >
> > I removed the Debian packages, reinstalled Nvidia's. Worked fine but next
> > bootup, the same thing. In both cases Nvidia's reinstall says the
> > installation was "modified" (it was not, not by me).
> >
> > One problem brought to mind is that the two installations use different
> > directories for their various pieces. I should "only" have Nvidia's
> > around.
> >
> > Is this a bug in the most recent version?
> > What do I do about it? (could go back to previous version which gave me
> > no trouble at all but that was before installing Debian's).
>
> Did you purge the nvidia-glx package? If you only removed it, then you
> still have the /etc/init.d/nvidia-glx script which messes with the
> symlink for libglx.so on every reboot. The failure to start X is
> probably the result of trying to use the nvdidia driver with Xorg's
> original libglx.so.
Seem to have done it! Thanks.
I assume the other nvidia file /etc/init.d/nvidia-kernel is theirs since it is
not necessary to have nvidia in /etc/modules (as suggested for the Debian
install).
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