Hi-

Why I thought this was a good idea to tinker with the week before finals
I'll never know. I tried upgrading XFree86 4.0 so I could use the
newly-released Nvidia drivers, but I must have missed a step or
misconfigured something, because now X won't run at all.

When I initially tried the upgrade (using RPMs) a couple of nights ago, I
was able to run startx and get Xwindows running, no problem -- but without
the accellerated drivers. I couldn't get them to install properly, nor
could I get the previous nvidia drivers to work (they at least had a
modicum of accelleration in them), once I had made the upgrades.
xf86config wouldn't make a workable XF86Config file, but Xconfigurator
could (which strikes me as very odd). 

Yesterday, however, when I booted up, I wasn't able to load X at all. I'm
getting the error: execve failed on /etc/X11/X (errno 2). /etc/X11/X is
linked to XF86_SVGA, a file which seems to be nowhere to be found -- and
despite re-installing XFree86-SVGA, is still missing. I can also no longer
run Xconfigurator; it dies after probing for my video card. Am I missing
something serious (like bolts in my head for even trying this) or do you
think this might be a config problem? (Or both -- certainly possible.) 

Any ideas how I can at least get X up and running again?

Thanks-
- alan


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