arijit wrote:
Hi all, I've just updated Xorg packages though synaptic. But after system restart, i am unable to start X-server. Error shown : unable to load module: nvidia right now I've switched to 'vesa' but I want to use 'nvidia'. Also when i use "nvidia-settings", i get this error: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- $ nvidia-settings ERROR: NV-CONTROL extension not found on this Display. ERROR: Unable to determine number of NVIDIA GPUs on ':0.0'. ERROR: Unable to determine number of NVIDIA Frame Lock Devices on ':0.0'. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here's the some output from Xorg.log:- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- II) LoadModule: "nvidia" (WW) Warning, couldn't open module nvidia (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia" (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- How can i solve this?I was using "nvidia-glx", NVIDIA binary XFree86 4.x driver version: 1.0.8766-4-- /Arijit Sarkar/ /Kolkata, India/ Evolution on Debian testing
Did you also upgrade the kernel? If so, you need to re-run the nvidia installation script to either install a pre-compiled, or to compile and install a custom, Nvidia driver.
-- Bob McGowan
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