On Wednesday 15 December 2010 10:03:58 Dale wrote: > Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > On 12/15/10 09:40:48, Dale wrote: > >> Hi again, > >> > >> For those mot up to date. I built a new rig that has a Nvidia GT220 > >> card in it. I bought a brand new monitor this morning, a LG W2253, > >> and > >> it worked one time. I had to reboot to move some things around and > >> when > >> I rebooted, the GUI doesn't come up. The BIOS screen shows up and I > >> can > >> see the services start up as well but when it switches to vt7, it > >> just > >> > >> has a little blinking cursor at the top. > > > > Have you changed the kernel? The nvidia-drivers (as well as the ati- > > drivers) have to be re-emerged after (nearly) any change to the kernel. > > Just re-emerge it, unload and reload the corresponding kernel module > > and try again to startx. > > > > Helmut. > > Just to make sure I understand you correctly. You mean: > > cd /usr/src/linux > make all && make modules_install > then cp the kernel to /boot ? > > That I didn't try. I knew if I updated the kernel I had to re-emerge > the nvidia-drivers but I didn't know it was the other way around too. > > Dale > > :-) :-)
Dale, Easy to test if the nvidia-driver is loaded correctly. What does "dmesg" say when loading the nvidia module? Also, is "nvidia" listed in the following file: /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 ? I don't have it there, for some reason it's "autoloaded", but it might help? -- Joost
