Hi all, <rant> I hate freakin' nvidia!!! </rant>
Sorry, just had to get that off my chest. I'm an ATI girl and I've never encountered the problems that I have with this damn laptop and it's nvidia card. Heck, I even got X working just fine when I took the hard drive out of my old computer and put it in the Dell Optiplex. Anyway, I've been struggling since yesterday with this and now am deferring to the superior knowledge of this list. I did an update world yesterday. One of the packages that was updated was nvidia-drivers to version 100.14.09. Had I realized I was going to have a problem, I would have masked this, but I thought I had everything ironed out since I got X working just fine on my laptop. Problem is, I don't remember the version of nvidia-drivers that I had installed prior to the upgrade and the online package database seems to be down. I may not have a lot of formal computer training, but I can read the superlative documentation provided by Gentoo! I followed the nvidia How To, but it didn't matter, I still cannot start X. This is what the error messages are telling me: 'Failed to initialize the GLX module' --> nvidia How says to 'Load glx in the Modules section of xorg.conf, but *not* DRI, which is what I have done. Then I get the message: 'API mismatch. This nvidia component has version 100.14.09, but the nvidia's kernel modules version does not match' I have no idea how to resolve this. I wish I had never upgraded (did I say that already? :-P ) and I want my laptop back! ;-( Help would be greatly appreciated! Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
