On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 09:32:23AM -0500, erosenberg@hygeiabiomedical.com wrote: > [3]erosenberg@hygeiabiomedical.com wrote: > > I am running jessie/sid. > > > > When I boot, prior to the login screen I receive the following > message: "A > > problem has occurred and the system can't recover" .It has been > suggested > > to me that the problem might be with the NVIDIA driver and that I > should > > look at [4]Xorg.log and xsession-errors. I cannot interpret these > files at > > all. I have removed the duplicate lines in xsession-errors, but I do > not > > know what to do with [5]Xorg.log. > > OK. First off, it's NOT a problem with the NVIDIA driver. I can tell > that because you're actually using the intel driver. If you have an > NVIDIA device available (either as your only graphics device or as a > secondary card), then you have a bigger problem. > > > > > With your indulgence and my apologies for the length of the files, > here > > they are: > > <Gigantic snip> > > Thanks. > > I ran smartctl on the hard drive, and it is OK. > > I am a newbie. I hope that I am correct, but you said that the hard > drive might have problems. As per above, thankfully it is healthy. > > Your next comment was that there might be a problem with the video > card. If that is true, I should replace the video card. What do you > recommend? The computer is a IBM ThinkCentre M50 8189. > > TIA > > Ethan > @[6]debian.org> > > Darac's office is closed for a holiday. Anyone have ideas about this? Actually, my "office" was "closed" because it was the weekend :) I realise that I might have lost the main issue in all the other comments. Do you have an NVIDIA graphics device in your computer? If so, you have a big problem (but let us know and we might be able to fix it). If not, then you're trying to fix a round peg (nvidia driver) into a square hole (intel graphics card). If you don't have an NVIDIA graphics card, then remove the nvidia packages: * glx-alternative-nvidia * nvidia-driver * libgl1-nvidia-glx and instead, install libgl1-mesa-glx. This should allow your INTEL card to do the 3D acceleration. > > TIA > > Ethan > > References > > Visible links > 1. mailto:mailinglist@darac.org.uk > 2. mailto:debian-user@lists.debian.org > 3. mailto:erosenberg@hygeiabiomedical.com > 4. http://xorg.log/ > 5. http://xorg.log/ > 6. file:///dev/http:
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