On 2011-07-02 18:44 +0200, Hans Vogelsberger wrote: > Todays testing update, safe-upgrade and full-upgrade totally killed my > X which ran with NVIDIA driver. Even this posting I must send from my > old computer which is in a terrible state because I did nothing on it > since I use the new one. Without X, most work I do on my computer > cannot be done.
This should serve as a warning to closely look out which packages are to be removed by a full-upgrade and back out if necessary. > Nouveau did not work after I bought my Fujitsu in January. Installing > xserver-xorg-video-nouveau, xserver-xorg-video-nouveau-dbg, > libdrm-nouveau1a, and libdrm-nouveau1a-dbg and changing the Driver > line in Section "Device" of /etc/X11/xorg.conf with Vim from "NVIDIA" > to "nouveau" and after another reboot to "NOUVEAU" did not work > either. The Identifier line was "NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GE" and thus > correct, the other sections in xorg.conf were not printed but > configured elsewhere, and xdm and xfce4 had worked well all the time. > > I rechanged the Driver line with Vim again back to "NVIDIA", rebootet > and dpkg-reconfigured whatever seemed necessary, And rebootet > again. Near the end of /var/log/Xorg.0.log the following lines showed > up: > (II) Loading extension DRI2 > (II) LoadModule: "nvidia" > (WW) Warning: couldn't open module "nvidia" > (II) Unloading module "nvidia" > (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" > These seem to be the important lines and are the same in Xorg.0.log > and in Xorg.0.log.old. The logs with "nouveau" are lost. I rebootet to > often and there is only one Xorg.0.log.old file. As far as I remember > those lines did not look notably different from the "nvidia" ones. > > Is there something I can do, or is it necessary to install Wheezy anew? Douglas Adams has some advice for you: DON'T PANIC. Your system is almost certainly not broken beyond repair and does not need to be reinstalled. Install the xserver-xorg-video-fbdev and xserver-xorg-video-vesa packages if they are not installed already, move your /etc/X11/xorg.conf aside and retry to start X. The nvidia packages will not be installable for a few days, unfortunately. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87pqlsimvn....@turtle.gmx.de
