On 10/2/07, sgrover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What kind of video card do you have? An nVidia? If so, did you > recently do a kernel update? (I know one came through not long ago for > K/ubuntu...). It *could* be that your video drivers were not updated to > match the new kernel. This is kinda common with nVidia cards, though I > used the instructions at www.ubuntuguide.com for nVidia setup last time > around and have not seen this issue since... > > The easy fix is to use the basic nVidia drivers. Edit your > /etc/X11/xorg.conf file (as root), and change the video card section - > mine looks like this: > > Section "Device" > Identifier "nVidia Corporation G70 [GeForce 7600 GT]" > Driver "nvidia" > BusID "PCI:3:0:0" > EndSection > > The "Driver" line needs to be changed to say "nv". > > Once that is done, restart your manager (kdm/gdm/etc.). If it IS the > video card problem this will work. But you won't have 3d acceleration. > > The Better way to fix this and keep the 3d acceleration is to update > your nVidia drivers. If you don't have your apt sources set up > correctly, this is a bit more of a challenge, and almost always means > doing it manually. Go to the nVidia website and download the latest > universal driver. There's lots of guides for this on the web - > http://www.google.ca/search?q=nvidia+ubuntu will get you started. > > If you don't have an nVidia card, then you might need to track down > details for your video card - I think the ATI cards have a similar issue > when the kernel is upgraded. > > Of course, this is all assuming it's a video driver error. But this > normally results in errors in the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file which you're > not seeing. > > Maybe if you post your /var/log/Xorg.0.log we can take a look?
Considering root was able to log in and use gnome, I'm not sure it is an Xorg driver issue (although, that was the first thing I thought of as well.) -Mark C. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
