On Thu, 1 Aug 2013 17:06:20 -0700 John Jason Jordan <joh...@comcast.net> dijo:
>Right now I am going to reboot on the outside chance that reinstalling >the nvidia driver requires me to restart X before it will work >properly. I don't expect that to work, so then I will try once more to >remove the nvidia driver and go back to nouveau (which is still >installed). I may arrive at the meeting tonight with a computer that >won't boot. But worse things have happened to computers of mine. :) Yep, rebooting changed nothing. I knew that the nvidia driver needs the xorg.conf file that it creates for itself upon installation. As far as I know, without the xorg.conf file X will use the nouveau driver if it is installed (which it is). So I renamed xorg.conf by appending today's date and rebooted. And X failed to come up at all. No login window, just a hung black screen. So I booted to runlevel 3, copied the xorg.conf.8.1.2013 file back as xorg.conf and rebooted. I am back, but still with the nvidia driver. I suspected that X would fail to come up with the nouveau driver as it should. I don't know why, but it's time to get to the meeting. This will have to wait. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
