[ubuntu-mythtv] Upgrade problem going to 10.10 with X

Scott Black scootna at gmail.com
Wed Oct 13 19:36:04 BST 2010


I am fairly new to this, but I have a mythbuntu machine that I put together
from an old hp machine with an nvidia card.  My experience was that the
proprietary drivers for nvidia are unstable.  When I upgraded to Mythbuntu
10.4 six months ago, I had a similar problem.  I found that if I disabled
the nvidia drivers the problem with X not starting could be fixed.  You can
do this by editing the /etc/X11/xorg.conf and changing "nvidia" to "nv"

xorg.conf:

Section "Screen"
        Identifier      "Default Screen"
        DefaultDepth    24
EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load    "glx"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier      "Default Device"
        Driver  "nv"
        Option  "NoLogo"        "True"
EndSection


Hope this helps.

Scott Black

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 4:36 AM, Jason <jason at wkrp.com> wrote:

>  On 10/12/2010 12:15 AM, Andrew Barbaccia wrote:
> >
> > Also, to fix the misconfiguraiton, run
> >
> > sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
>
> I tried that.  Just returns to the prompt - nothing X activates across
> all the consoles (checked those just in case).  I guess I could try
> sending it's output to my frontends X session but that just seems weird.
>
> I removed xserver-xorg / mythbuntu-desktop and reinstalled no luck.
> When I do an xinit I get this.
>
> [ 11073.950] (**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
> [ 11073.950] (==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888
> [ 11073.950] (==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
> [ 11073.950] (==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
> [ 11073.950] (**) NVIDIA(0): Option "TwinView" "0"
> [ 11073.950] (**) NVIDIA(0): Option "MetaModes" "1920x1080 +0+0;
> 1024x768 +0+0; 800x600 +0+0; 640x480 +0+0"
> [ 11073.951] (**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling RENDER acceleration
> [ 11073.951] (II) NVIDIA(0): Support for GLX with the Damage and
> Composite X extensions is
> [ 11073.951] (II) NVIDIA(0):     enabled.
> [ 11073.977] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics
> device PCI:1:0:0.
> [ 11073.978] (EE) NVIDIA(0):     Please check your system's kernel log
> for additional error
> [ 11073.978] (EE) NVIDIA(0):     messages and refer to Chapter 8: Common
> Problems in the
> [ 11073.978] (EE) NVIDIA(0):     README for additional information.
> [ 11073.978] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics
> device!
> [ 11073.978] (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
> [ 11073.978] (II) UnloadModule: "wfb"
> [ 11073.978] (II) UnloadModule: "fb"
> [ 11073.978] (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
>
> In my Xorg.0.log still.
>
> Looks like nvidia is having troubles...  dmesg doesn't show any errors
> or /var/log/messages
>
> Any suggestions?  I'm going to start digging into it after work...
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
> Jason
>
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