Hi, I'm running Debian linux, and I have just upgraded to kernel 2.6.26 from 2.6.18. I have NVidia GeForce Go 7700, and Debian's nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel packages never worked for me, and they didn't this time either. Before this update I always succeeded in downloading a driver from NVidia's website, compiling the kernel interface, and my X would always work (until the next kernel upgrade). Not so this time.
I downloaded the 180.22 IA32 driver and compiled the kernel interface, letting nvidia change my xorg.conf. (I made sure I removed all Debian nvidia packages with --purge option beforehand). Everything succeeded as before. However, firing up gdm brings me to X server's gray screen. This is the screen you usually get by running X yourself, and before any window manager has started. I see a mouse pointer in the form of "X" which I can move. But there is no gdm login screen. I tried running "X :0" myself, and then running a window manager from the console, also without success. fvwm, icewm, and blackbox all just "hang". When I switch to virtual terminal with X on it (vt7), I see the same gray screen. I also tried to setting the background from a console with xsetroot -display :0.0 -solid green After which I get the following message: xsetroot: ../../src/xcb_lock.c:33: _XCBUnlockDisplay: Assertion 'xcb_get_request_sent(dpy->xcb->connection) == dpy->request' failed. Aborted. I tried searching for similar problem but did not find anything. It seems the X server is able to use nvidia's driver, but then is unable to paint on the screen. Or it is unable to accept connections for some reason. I inspected /var/log/Xorg.0.log and didn't find anything suspicious, there are several (WW) messages about font paths and "unable to grab event device" for touchpad, none of which I think are relevant to this problem. Can anyone help me or point me where I can get some information about this problem? I can post more output from the logs, and/or system information if needed. Thank you. -Mike _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg