On Tue November 13 2007, Florian Kulzer wrote: > If the installer finishes without errors and nevertheless your X will > not start then we need to see the output of > > egrep '^\((EE|WW)\)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log
installing the headers got me to finish teh NVIDIA...run, but X still didn't start. $ egrep '^\((EE|WW)\)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log (WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc" does not exist. (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist. (WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic" does not exist. (WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" does not exist. (WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/" does not exist. (WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" does not exist. (WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi" does not exist. (WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi" does not exist. (WW) The directory "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType" does not exist. (WW) Including the default font path /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi,/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType. (WW) NV(0): Failed to set up write-combining range (0xc0000000,0x8000000) (EE) Failed to initialize GLX extension (Compatible NVIDIA X driver not found) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ------------- this may be part of my OTHER issue, where my .xsession-errors file grows so big so fast, I think because of FONTS... ( anotehr thread..) -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 Registered Ubuntu User #12459 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]