Kernel update to 2.6.24-23-generic and nvidia module

Gianluca Cerminara gianluca.cerminara at cern.ch
Mon Feb 9 13:56:57 UTC 2009



Jonas Norlander wrote:
> 2009/2/9 Gianluca Cerminara <gianluca.cerminara at cern.ch>:
>> Hi,
>>        last kernel update broke my X server. The X session won't start
>> reporting the following error:
>>
>> (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module!
>> (EE) NVIDIA(0):  *** Aborting ***
>> (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
>> (II) UnloadModule: "wfb"
>> (II) UnloadModule: "fb"
>> (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
>>
>> Fatal server error:
>> no screens found
>>
>> I can't event modprobe the module by hand. I tried to reinstall
>> nvidia-glx-new but nothing changed....
>>
>> Anybody else experiencing the same?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>        G
> 
> Perhaps the module did not got installed right? Have you tried to
> reinstall them?
> 
> / Jonas
> 

Hi Jonas,
	yes, as I said I tried to reinstall nvidia-glx-new.....but this didn't 
fix the problem.

Thanks,
	G





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