I did a successful new install of 8.04 with KDE 3.5 on a Toshiba Tecra S5-12M.
It started up with the VESA driver and I downloaded the latest driver (173.14.09) from the NVIDIA site and installed it without many problems.
The computer was rebooted a few times over the next days and worked fine.
Yesterday I could not run the NVIDIA X Server Settings and next I noticed the driver was not ticked in the Hardware Drivers Manager. (All in the System menu).
Although everything seemed to work fine I ticked the box in the Hardware Drivers Manager and next the driver seemed to be re installed and I could now get back into the X Server Settings.
This morning the computer booted into the login screen but after entering my details the screen went to console, not X or KDE.
A few lines of log were visible, the last one stating "running local boot scripts /ect/rc.local
When I switched to Console F7 I noticed a message that NVIDIA driver 173.14.05 was already installed.
So it appears there are (pointers to) two different drivers on the system.
Switching to another Console (F1-F6 seem available) I was able to log in (again!) and via startX I got into the KDE desktop of my account.
Yet I can't do a normal shut down via the K-menu, only the option 'log out' is present and it brings me back to the Console where I can then do a 'sudo shutdown -h now'.
I mucked around, deinstalling the NVIDIA new drivers via Adept, rerunning the NVIDIA script, rerunning nvidia-xconfig etc. but so far no luck to log in the regular way.
Any hints?
My xorg.conf:
Oh yes, in the -Section "Module"- there is a -load "type1"- which shows up in the logs a failed and non existing. I tried to comment it out (#) but it makes no difference.
Starting up through the restore and or safe modes doesn't help either
It started up with the VESA driver and I downloaded the latest driver (173.14.09) from the NVIDIA site and installed it without many problems.
The computer was rebooted a few times over the next days and worked fine.
Yesterday I could not run the NVIDIA X Server Settings and next I noticed the driver was not ticked in the Hardware Drivers Manager. (All in the System menu).
Although everything seemed to work fine I ticked the box in the Hardware Drivers Manager and next the driver seemed to be re installed and I could now get back into the X Server Settings.
This morning the computer booted into the login screen but after entering my details the screen went to console, not X or KDE.
A few lines of log were visible, the last one stating "running local boot scripts /ect/rc.local
When I switched to Console F7 I noticed a message that NVIDIA driver 173.14.05 was already installed.
So it appears there are (pointers to) two different drivers on the system.
Switching to another Console (F1-F6 seem available) I was able to log in (again!) and via startX I got into the KDE desktop of my account.
Yet I can't do a normal shut down via the K-menu, only the option 'log out' is present and it brings me back to the Console where I can then do a 'sudo shutdown -h now'.
I mucked around, deinstalling the NVIDIA new drivers via Adept, rerunning the NVIDIA script, rerunning nvidia-xconfig etc. but so far no luck to log in the regular way.
Any hints?
My xorg.conf:
Code:
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig # nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder63) Thu Jun 5 00:10:21 PDT 2008 Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Layout0" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" EndSection Section "Files" RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" EndSection Section "Module" Load "dbe" Load "extmod" Load "type1" Load "freetype" Load "glx" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # generated from default Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # generated from default Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Unknown" ModelName "Unknown" HorizSync 30.0 - 110.0 VertRefresh 50.0 - 150.0 Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Device0" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Device0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection
Starting up through the restore and or safe modes doesn't help either
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