Right
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
Joshua Kite
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