On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 21:41 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Jun 12, 11:20 am, arijit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I've just updated Xorg packages though synaptic. > > But after system restart, i am unable to start X-server. > > Error shown : unable to load module: nvidia > > right now I've switched to 'vesa' but I want to use 'nvidia'. > > > > Also when i use "nvidia-settings", i get this error: > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > $ nvidia-settings > > ERROR: NV-CONTROL extension not found on this Display. > > ERROR: Unable to determine number of NVIDIA GPUs on ':0.0'. > > ERROR: Unable to determine number of NVIDIA Frame Lock Devices on > > ':0.0'. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Here's the some output from Xorg.log:- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > II) LoadModule: "nvidia" > > (WW) Warning, couldn't open module nvidia > > (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia" > > (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0) > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > How can i solve this? > > I was using "nvidia-glx", NVIDIA binary XFree86 4.x driver version: > > 1.0.8766-4 > > > > -- > > > > Arijit Sarkar > > Kolkata, India > > > > Evolution on Debian testing > > same thing happened to me on the upgrade to xorg 7.2. the nvidia > driver needs to be recompiled and packaged for the new xorg. thats > what we get for using non-free stuff... > > you should file a bug on nvidia-kernel about this so they know that > they need to fix it. in the meantime, u can download the driver > directly from nvidia. > > mike >
Thanks for the information. However I've changed my driver to 'nv' for the time being. it seems this bug already been reported. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=428697 thanks, -- Arijit Sarkar Kolkata, India Debian GNU/Linux
