HELP! No X on startup

[Peter Lewis]

On Wednesday 04 July 2007 at 12:02:17 D. R. Evans wrote:
> part 2 (it seems to be complaining about something called glx, but I
> have no idea why, nor what has caused any of this to change since the
> last time I restarted the X server, a couple of days ago; I certainly
> didn't change anything manually):

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As you rightly say, this bit seems to be the culprit:

(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the GLX module; please check in your X
(EE) NVIDIA(0):     log file that the GLX module has been loaded in your X
(EE) NVIDIA(0):     server, and that the module is the NVIDIA GLX module.
If
(EE) NVIDIA(0):     you continue to encounter problems, Please try
(EE) NVIDIA(0):     reinstalling the NVIDIA driver.
FATAL: Could not open
'/lib/modules/2.6.15-28-amd64-generic/volatile/nvidia.ko': No such file or
directory
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module!

It can't find a module called nvidia.ko. Does the file it's pointing to exist?

I've never used nvidia drivers, so not sure about exactly what different 
modules are required. Perhaps someone else on the list does.

So, as it suggests, you could try:

1. Reinstalling the nvidia driver, using apt-get or synaptic.
and/or
2. runnning 'dpkg-configure xserver-xorg' and answering the questions there.

If you need any help doing these, let us know.

Pete.