Rich: If GLX is not working, then this would likely cause problems for any program that requires OpenGL. Therefore, I'd expect that compiz would not work on your system. It would be interesting to find out if the problem goes away if you switch your window manager to metacity.
I'm not sure the best way to do this if your system hangs when the session starts. Normally you enable or disable compiz in the "Appearance" properties dialog. Note that the /usr/bin/compiz script has code to try and identify whether the system can support compiz or not. Perhaps that code is not working on your system for some reason? You could try hacking the /usr/bin/compiz script so that it just always calls "abort_with_metacity". Does that make a difference? Brian On 01/04/10 14:51, Rich Burridge wrote: > John Martin wrote: >> On 01/ 4/10 02:24 PM, Rich Burridge wrote: >>> Aborting with metacity >>> Reason : /var/log/Xorg.0.log reports nvidia graphics driver not >>> installed. >>> >> >> Had you previously installed an alternate NVIDIA driver? > > Not that I'm aware of. > >> The IPS bug which >> removes non-empty directories populated by SYSV packages will remove the >> NVIDIA X driver as the X directory paths changed in b130. >> > > > > Brian Cameron wrote: >> The following message in your log looks suspicious to me: >> >> > Aborting with metacity >> > Reason : /var/log/Xorg.0.log reports nvidia graphics driver not >> > installed. >> >> Is there any information in the Xorg logs that might highlight >> the problem? > > I'm not an expert on this, so I've attached the Xorg log file from > build #130 which fails (Xorg.0.log.bad) and the one from build > #129 that works (Xorg.0.log.good). > > It would appear to be a problem with the GLX driver, but I don't > believe I've done anything special here (apart from the image-update). > > Thanks. >
