After actually reading the Nvidia README I saw that having drivers installed for the wrong kernel can cause this problem, where an error of "(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module!"
occurs whenever X attempts to start. It turns out I had accidently installed the nforce drivers for kernel 2.4 as well as the correct ones (for kernel 2.6 - I am running MDK 10.0 download edition). After removing these drivers and installing the correct version of the nforce drivers again X started correctly but the network card didn't work because the configuration file modprobe.conf needed altering. However after I did this, the problem with X started again, then I reinstalled the drivers in text-mode and now it seems to work. I'll reboot a few times to make sure though.


David

Ronald J. Hall wrote:

On Wednesday 15 September 2004 12:27 pm, David Trethewey wrote:


Something quiet odd is happening now, although the KDE problem is gone
now, X failed to start after the machine was shutdown and started again.
After I ran the Nvidia installer again it is now working again. Does
anyone know what is configured wrongly?

David



David, what error message does it give when you type in "startx"?



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