I see the NVIDIA logo then it tries to change but immediately quits, that is it switches back to VGA terminal mode
The lines I gave were from the messages on screen They were not in XFree86.0.log because they are from KDE and not from X Effectively, X only runs long enough for the Nvidia logo to display On Sunday 28 March 2004 11:15 pm, Duraid Madina wrote: > What precisely do you mean by "X starts, but KDE will not run?" I'm > assuming: > > - You see the NVIDIA splash screen (logo on white) > - This screen changes to some other screen (presumably a login screen) > - KDE tries to do something, and this doesn't work (from what you've > pasted, it looks like it crashes the X server?) > > Is this right? > > A bit puzzled, > > Duraid > > Richard Harke wrote: > > On Friday 26 March 2004 01:57 pm, David Mosberger wrote: > >>>>>>>On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 19:36:55 +1100, Duraid Madina > >>>>>>><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >> > >> Duraid> You'll probably want to use a newer nvidia driver (from > >> Duraid> nvidia.com) or move libc back down. I don't think you have > >> Duraid> any other choices. > >> > >>A word of warning with the nvidia driver: it's important to use the > >>driver with a "matching" XFree86 server. AFAIK, the current nvidia > >>drivers work with all version of XFree86 v4.3.x, but NOT with v4.4.x. > >>Apparently, there is some version-checking support in the X server > >>which could detect such mismatches, but the nvidia driver doesn't seem > >>to do that and as a result, it will load into XFree86 v4.4.xx just > >>fine, except that it will then sooner or later crash with a segfault. > >> > >> --david > > > > Well, I went to a newer nvidia driver, 1.0-5336 > > (NVIDIA-Linux-ia64-1.0-5336-pkg1.run there was also a "pkg0" > > version in the ftp archive, but I guess that was an oops) > > > > Now X starts but KDE will not run > > > > (II) Initializing extension GLX > > startkde: Starting up... > > /usr/X11R6/bin/kde: line 143: 14986 Segmentation fault kreadconfig > > --file kpersonalizerrc --group General --key FirstLogin --default true > > --type bool > > _X11TransOpen: Unable to find transport for local > > ksplash: cannot connect to X server :0 > > Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory > > ksmserver: cannot connect to X server :0 > > startkde: Shutting down... > > Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory > > Error: Can't contact kdeinit! > > startkde: Running shutdown scripts... > > startkde: Done. > > > > I think that the _X11TransOpen failure is the key one but I > > don't understand what it means precisely. There were > > messages during boot up about "no response from > > localhost" Does that mean that some demon is not running?? > > I can ping localhost and a lot of others. Also, ftp to nvidia and > > apt-get to debian have worked fine. > > > > Richard Harke
