x-windows-system-core update breaks nVidia driver links (was Re: Update screwes up bios (or something))

2004-09-30 Thread John C. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Recreating links to the nVidia driver libraries for driver version 6111: # cd /usr/lib # ln -s libGL.so.1.0.6111 libGL.so.1 # ln -s libGLcore.so.1.0.6111 libGLcore.so.1 I think that is all that needs to be relinked. On Wednesday 29 September 2004

Update screwes up bios (or something)

2004-09-29 Thread Johan Groth
Hi all, I'm using the gcc-3.4 version of amd64 and have just installed gnome-desktop and x-window-system. I also installed the nvidia drivers. The installation went fine but when I try to start x (startx) the screen goes blank and won't recover. So only resort was reboot but still a blank

Re: Update screwes up bios (or something)

2004-09-29 Thread Patrick Flaherty
I have a tiger k8w, and somwhere along the line I mussed it up video card like that. i'm not really sure how i did it, but i only noticed it when i locked myself out of the machine trying to use pam_ldap. clearing the bios fixed it. i think it maybe bad agp settings, but i'm not sure. it's a

Re: Update screwes up bios (or something)

2004-09-29 Thread John C. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yes. Similar thing just happened here. Just upgraded x-window-system-core to 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 from 4.3.0.dfsg.1-7 and X now aborts with sig11. It was working fine. I haven't been able to back down to 1-7 yet to try to get it going again. - ---

Re: Update screwes up bios (or something)

2004-09-29 Thread John C. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Similar thing just happened here. It is not a bios problem. We just upgraded x-window-system-core to 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 from 4.3.0.dfsg.1-7 and X now aborts with sig11. It was working fine. I haven't been able to back down to 1-7 yet to try to get

Re: Update screwes up bios (or something)

2004-09-29 Thread Bharath Ramesh
I had the same problems. Luckily I had the nvidia installer logs and was able to set up the nvidia drivers the right way again without reinstalling completely and that fixed the problem for me. I guess when you install the new x-window-system it breaks the symlinks for nvidia driver. Bharath

Re: Update screwes up bios (or something)

2004-09-29 Thread John C. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Similar thing just happened here. It is not a bios problem. We just upgraded x-window-system-core to 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 from 4.3.0.dfsg.1-7 and X now aborts with sig11. It was working fine. I haven't been able to back down to 1-7 yet to try to get it

Re: Update screwes up bios (or something)

2004-09-29 Thread Nicolas Sergent
Also the same problem after upgrading... Could you explain in details what you did to fix it, please? Thank you Nicolas Bharath Ramesh a écrit : I had the same problems. Luckily I had the nvidia installer logs and was able to set up the nvidia drivers the right way again without reinstalling