Upgraded to mdk9.1 and now NO NVIDIA Drivers work!

[ozeroc]

First off, I'll say that I'm not a newbie at Linux... That said, here's my problem:
I downloaded mdk9.1 and upgraded my mdk9.0 that was running nvidia 1.0-3123 without problems. After the upgrade I got no X. I've tried loading both 4191 and 3123 rpms and tarballs with zero success. The worst part is I don't even get a good error message to chase down. Here are the warnings from XFree86.0.log:

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(WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such file or directory)
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(WW) NVIDIA(0): Multiple displays connected, but only one display allowed;
(WW) NVIDIA(0): using boot display
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That's really about it. They don't look like warnings that would keep X from running. When I run startx I get the NVidia splash screen then the watch for a second then it drops out and I get:

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(II) [GLX]: Initializing GLX extension

...shutting down the X server...

Any help would be greatly appreciated! I have attached both my XFree86.0.log and XF86Config-4 (in one file). I have a GeForce2 440MX 64mb DDR card. Please help. It's no fun surfing the web with lynx!

PS.. I have been reading posts in this Forum for the past few days and all my stuff seems to be setup as it should.

[Andy Mecham]

Can you please post a verbose X log? (startx -- -logverbose 5)

--andy

[ozeroc]

OK.. Here's the verbose log. Some more info:
When I initially boot the splash screen appears 3 times as the system tries to start X...

Also I noticed this in the log file:

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XFree86 Version 4.3.0
Release Date: 27 February 2003
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6
Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.21-0.13mdksmp i686 [ELF]
Build Date: 12 March 2003
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I don't have an smp system. Just a plain ol' AMD Athlon 1.3 single processor...

[Andy Mecham]

The "Build Operating System" indicates the machine that your X binaries were built on, not your machine.

There doesn't seem to be anything obviously wrong at first glance. Can you try 1.0-4349?

--andy

[ozeroc]

OK. I tried 1.0-4349. Wow. That was an easy install. Too bad it didn't work for whatever my problem is...:( I still get the same: no real error message and no X! I even checked /var/log/messages and there are no error messages there either.

I wonder if there's a way to rollback my mdk9.1 upgrade? I was lovin' life with mdk 9.0 and 1.0-3123... Grrr..:mad: This is frustrating!

Any thoughts on what could be causing my problem? XP works great, for what that's worth!

[ozeroc]

I looked in .xsession-errors and saw that kde was dying so I put twm in .xinitrc and X started up like a champ! Well, off to a different forum to figure this problem out...:rolleyes:

Thanks for being responsive!