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.
You can get X working in the meantime by switching to the open-source nv driver. Edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file and replace the nvidia with nv in the device section. -- Greg
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