On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 12:58:58PM -0400, Mark Vojkovich wrote: > On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, praveen kallakuri wrote: > > > Mark Vojkovich wrote: > > > On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Praveen Kallakuri wrote: > > > > > > > > >>hi > > >> > > >> > > >>i am having trouble starting x with this nvidia quadro graphics card on a dell precision 360. i got the driver from nvidia's website and > > >>installed it. i really think its not a driver issue but something fundamental with X. this is a new debian installation and i have never > > >>run X on it before. i did upgrade to xfree 4.3 though and built a new 2.4.22 kernel. i attached the log and the config file. can someone > > >>tell me where i am going wrong? > > >> > > > > > > > > > You seem to have a problem with your XFree86 installation. You > > > have version 4.3, yet at least one of your XFree86 modules (the > > > one it's crashing on) is from 4.2. > > > > > > (II) Module pcidata: vendor="The XFree86 Project" > > > compiled for 4.2.0, module version = 0.1.0 > > > ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.5 > > > > > > > > doesn't that happen sometimes? i mean i did run across modules that > > belonged to prev versions but still included because they could work. in > > I don't think so. If you build XFree86 4.3 you get 4.3 modules. > Mixing modules usually works, but not always. Pcidata is one of > those modules that should get upgraded with each new server. > > > any case, i guess what you are asking me to do is run a fresh install of > > xf4.3. i was planning to do that... basically i will move /etc/X11R6 and > > /etc/X11 and reinstall x. hope that will work. > > I think all you need to do is remove the /usr/X11R6/lib/modules > directory and reinstall. Note you'll need to reinstall NVIDIA's > binary drivers after upgrading XFree86, as XFree86 will blow away > NVIDIA's OpenGL libraries. > > > Mark. > i have my x-windows workig now. like you said mark, i reinstalled 4.3 having renamed /usr/X11. after that i reinstalled nvidia drivers and then had some trouble with the mouse. i finally figured out that i had to point to /dev/psaux. thanks -praveen _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
