On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:44:18AM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > > came into work today and the computer was crashed dead; don't > know what the problem was (I'll attach the last few lines of > /var/log/messages from yesterday; they don't tell me much, though). > > Rebooted and x wouldn't start because of a problem with nvidiactl (I > have to use the nonfree drivers to make X work at all...). > > I've tried variouS things -- modprobe nvidia, insmod NVdriver, > changing to an oder kernel, none of it matters. > > Gdm gives slightly different errors from those recorded in > XFree86.log. Here's the last bit of gdm's log: > -------- > Not loading .note.GNU-stack > Not loading .note.GNU-stack > Not loading .note.GNU-stack > NV: could not open control device /dev/nvidiactl (No such device)
Does /dev/nvidiactl exist? If so, what are the permissions on it? You'll also want to check for /dev/nvidia0 - /dev/nvidia3 and what their permissions are. > (==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888 > (==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor > (==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0) > (--) NVIDIA(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xD0000000 > (--) NVIDIA(0): MMIO registers at 0xE4000000 > (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module! Is the "nvidia" module loaded (should see it in the output of lsmod). Are you using the NVidia installation routines or the Debian binary and wrapper packages? If using the Debian packages, what are the versions of your nvidia-glx, nvidia-kernel-common, and nvidia-kernel packages (for the nvidia-kernel package the actual name should be something like nvidia-kernel-$kernelversion where $kernelversion is the output of "uname -r"). -- Jamin W. Collins "Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups." -- John Kenneth Galbraith -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
