breezy upgrade, Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.12-10-686 can't start X

[Ryan Escarez]

On 12/6/05, rpowersau at gmail.com <rpowersau at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I did a dist upgrade to breezy. Everything went well. However, when I
> rebooted, I ended up at the command line. X wouldn't start, it complained
> that it couldn't load nvidia?
>
> So I rebooted and selected Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.12-10-386 from the grub menu
> and it worked.
>
> Does anyone know why the 686 kernel would not work but the 386 would? From
> the error message it seems to be an nvidia "thing."
>
> Thanks.
>

have you tried this?

http://brainbox.keyz.org/?p=104



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