Boot problem on new install with Nvidia (Moved to 8.04 Forum)

[Teunis]

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:

# 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

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

[toad]

Re: Boot problem on new install with Nvidia

If I were you I'd backed up my original xorg.conf I would try this first and see whether it works. Then I would slowly go through all my different xorg.conf backups until I found the last working one.

But something similar happened to me yesterday, where the above didn't work! So I took my GeForce 5600 out of its slot, blew some dust off and inserted it again - bingo 8) But you are on a notebook...

As a quick fix, have you tried installing envy? It (to my surprise) worked for me.

[Teunis]

Re: Boot problem on new install with Nvidia

I have not tried Envy yet, good tip.

And I posted in the wrong forum, 7.10 but it should have been 8.04.

So I'm going to move this to the correct one.