Am Mittwoch, 19. Mai 2010 schrieb Norval Watson: > > On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 05:01:35PM -0700, Norval Watson wrote: > > When I > > dist-upgraded recently, debian's 2.6.32-5-amd64 kernel broke x, as in I > > cannot start (or restart) gdm. > > The 2.6.32-3-amd64 kernel works fine. > > Are > > > you running the fglrx or nvidia driver by any chance? If so > > you > > probably just have to rebuild the module against the new kernel > > > using > > module-assistant. of course the nvidia driver is moving to dkms > > > and > > hence no longer will need manual work it seems. > > > Sorensen > > I am just running nv driver with latest kernel, have not had time to > update nvidia driver yet, thanks Lennart for the heads-up re dkms, I > will check it out! > Norv
I solved it for me by blacklisting the "nouveau" kernel module. It seems, this happens with nvidia cards. If you are running nv or the 3d accelerated nvidia-glx driver, you can either delete the nouveau driver or blacklist it. Good luck! Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
