On Thursday 24 January 2008 09:01:49 Mike wrote: > On Wednesday 23 January 2008, you wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 04:41:12PM -0500, Mike wrote: > > > On Wednesday 23 January 2008, D Henson wrote: > > > > The latest mandatory update appears to have killed my server. After > > > > > > On my system, today's xorg update overwrote parts of the NVIDIA closed > > > source driver. If you are using that driver the easiest solution is to > > > boot into safe mode and reinstall it. > > > > It should not have (and likely has not) overwritten anything. > > My xorg log file with the problem no longer exists but I believe the > problem was related to glx. > > > What exactly did you see as problems? > > The nvidia splash screen loading, dark screen flicker several times, then > the nvidia splash loading again. This repeated several times, then stopped > on a dark screen. > > On manual reinstall of the nvidia driver it complained about the previous > nvidia installation having been modified since it was initially installed > (glx library symbolic link in usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions). After the > install was complete (with no changes to xorg.conf) the driver worked fine. > > mike.
I second that - exactly the same symptoms and resolution here. -- =================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV [EMAIL PROTECTED] =================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
