[Novalug] no desktop after lenny install(resolved)

Norman Bird steelpulsefan@gmail.com
Mon Feb 16 12:54:16 EST 2009


Yahoo! thanks to my new best buddy Jon, I am up baby. Here is a summary of
the problm and the solution:

After I upgraded Lenny, my startx was failing and all I got was login.
Startx showed error was vesa module could not be found. I lacking knowledge
was lost and after reconfigure this and install that, still same error. it
never occured to me that it was telling me that the driver could not be
found in modules. So Jon pointed that out and I looked in there and no
drivers as it should be. Jon also gave me the site where the packahge was.
Having the name of the package, I just did
aptitude install package name, and bingo the drivers were now in the modules
directory and startx fired up.

this was a great learning experience and I will not fear startx failures as
much as before. Thankf Jon, drinks are on me next time we meet. Remind me

thanks all

Norman


>
> thanks, I'm still without video. will work on it some more now.
>
> On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Jon LaBadie <novalugml@jgcomp.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 03:10:03PM -0500, Norman Bird wrote:
>> > I installed lenny fairly easy but upon reboot I only get login promt as
>> > xserver fails to load. the error log said it was unable to fing "nv"
>> driver,
>> > that it did not exist. I in my limited knowledge know that I now have to
>> > reconfigure the settings in etc/X11/xorg.conf...but I'm not sure where
>> to
>> > start when it says cant find the nv driver.
>>
>> And later you said it could not find the vesa driver.
>> These are basic and should be installed automatically.
>>
>> So are they there?  I think both lenny and hardy ubuntu are
>> debian based aren't they?  If so, ubuntu has its drivers in
>> /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers.  That is where my nv and vesa
>> drivers are located nv_drv.so and vesa_drv.so.  Also my added,
>> proprietary nvidia_drv.so gets installed there.
>>
>> Do you have these drivers?  Readable by all?
>>
>> jl
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