Your xorg.conf looks like it is trying to use the 'nv' driver, but Xorg is trying to load nvidia_drv.so.
Is there anything in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d that is trying to load nvidia_drv.so? -Mark C. On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Joe S <joes...@shaw.ca> wrote: > Using Debian Squeeze > Using KDE > > I was able to log into my Desktop, but lost that ability. I type in my > password and press Enter. The login screen goes away like the Desktop > is loading and then it stops, and comes back to the login screen. > > I tried to configure > Code: > Xorg: Xorg -configure > > and got this message: > (EE) Failed to load /user/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so > (EE) Failed to load module nvidia (loader failed, 7) > (++) Using config file: /root/xorg.conf.new > (==) Using system config directory /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d > (EE) [drm] No DRICreatePCIBusID symbol > Number of created screens does no match number of detected devices. > Configuration failed > > I don't know what happened. I'm using the nv driver. My video card is an > old one: Nvidia Vanta LT. The driver quit working in the last couple of > days. Was the driver updated and my card no longer supported? > Anything else that would cause this. I can post the xorg.conf if needed. > > ------------------ > > My xorg.conf is below: > > Section "ServerLayout" > Identifier "X.org Configured" > Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 > InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" > InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" > EndSection > > Section "Files" > ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules" > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc" > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled" > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled" > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1" > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi" > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi" > FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType" > FontPath "built-ins" > EndSection > > Section "Module" > #Load "dri" > Load "dbe" > Load "record" > #Load "dri2" > Load "extmod" > Load "glx" > EndSection > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Keyboard0" > Driver "kbd" > EndSection > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Mouse0" > Driver "mouse" > Option "Protocol" "auto" > Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7" > EndSection > > Section "Monitor" > Identifier "Monitor0" > VendorName "Monitor Vendor" > ModelName "Monitor Model" > EndSection > > Section "Device" > ### Available Driver options are:- > ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False", > ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz" > ### [arg]: arg optional > #Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>] > #Option "HWcursor" # [<bool>] > #Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>] > #Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>] > #Option "VideoKey" # <i> > Identifier "Card0" > Driver "nv" > VendorName "nVidia Corporation" > BoardName "NV6 [Vanta/Vanta LT]" > BusID "PCI:1:0:0" > EndSection > > Section "Screen" > Identifier "Screen0" > Device "Card0" > Monitor "Monitor0" > SubSection "Display" > Viewport 0 0 > Depth 1 > EndSubSection > SubSection "Display" > Viewport 0 0 > Depth 4 > EndSubSection > SubSection "Display" > Viewport 0 0 > Depth 8 > EndSubSection > SubSection "Display" > Viewport 0 0 > Depth 15 > EndSubSection > SubSection "Display" > Viewport 0 0 > Depth 16 > EndSubSection > SubSection "Display" > Viewport 0 0 > Depth 24 > EndSubSection > EndSection > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > clug-talk@clug.ca > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying