On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 04:05:40PM +0100, Joshua Kite wrote: > After many, many hours and much reading of forums I have restored my X > environment although at the moment only with the nv driver, not the > nvidia driver. The problem is clearly a result of the change in module > location and package naming with the move from xorg 6.x => xorg 7 and so > I consider it to be the package maintainers' 'fault' and for them to > address. Here is what I did: > > Firstly I had to generate a 'virgin' new /etc/X11/xorg.conf . > > dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg > > did NOT work (complaining of a customised file) and so I had to > > mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.old.20060417 > > The new xorg.conf looked very different indeed to the old one based on > the old xfree86 XF86config-4 from the XF86 => xorg transition. > > I still had problems with 'missing' modules which the following 'fixed' > > ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/* /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers > ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/* /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions > > I now found that although I could <startx> manually, I could not get a > graphical login to come up automatically, gdm complained 'Xserver not > found...' . I 'fixed' this with > > ln -s /usr/bin/Xorg /usr/X11R6/bin/X > > I am now back to an (unaccelerated) graphical login: X complains "Failed > to initialize GLX extension (compatible NVIDIA X driver not found)". > Naturally I have abandoned the Debian nvidia packages long ago (never > really used them) and reinstalled the official nvidia 8756 'pkg-run' > installer several times without further success. I presume that this glx > problem will also be a location problem as with the rest and that this > would explain the ubuntu situation which I described previously- the > kernel loads the nvidia module but x won't use it. I don't have any more > time to play with his right now but I hope that this sorry situation can > be fixed by the package maintainers ASAP since it would seem everything > is there but x is looking in the wrong places for the things it needs > now that we have moved to xorg 7x. > > Thanks especially to Jerome for your help and support I started responding to your post in pieces, but then I realised that you're using the proprietary NVIDIA driver. Which explains why it's not working. There are numerous documented workarounds for this; please continue searching (I don't have them to hand), as it is not Debian's problem.
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