On Saturday 29 March 2003 10:08 am, Leo Abbott wrote: > I am knowledgeable about Windows (and DOS) but a Linux greenhorn. I bought > Mandrake 9.0 Power Pack several weeks ago and used Expert install to get > all the partitions and hardware right. Worked great with every thing I > tried-mostly exploring the desktop and Internet. Screen 1024x768 16bit > with NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model 64/64. > > Yesterday I downloaded the last 9.1 ISO and ran an upgrade. Upgrade > successful, reboot. Ended up with 3 screen flashes, a black screen and a > logon prompt. Logged on but could not load KDE or any Xwindow. Logoff but > could not shut down so turned it off, rebooted same story. Tried Install. > Carefully checked Video setting: said NVIDIA TNT2, the only choice. Same > result. Error messages about improper shutdown and: > (EE) NVIDIA 0 failed to initialize the Nvdriver kernel module! > (EE) NVIDIA ***aborting*** > (EE) Screen(s) found. But none has a useable configuration > fatal error: no screens found. > XIO: fatal IO error 104 (connection reset by peer) on X server ":0,0" > It looks like you had the nVidia closed source drivers installed and those need to be upgraded also. You can get them at the Club website or go to nvidia.com.
-- Greg
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