problem with Xorg

[Njoku, George]

Don't know what type on Nvidia graphics card you're using but hardware
ace. In 'on' by default in most cases. 

If you want to explicitly specify....just edit "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
.....under section "Screen", add 'Option "Accel"`

 

But since you cannot get X to start, I suggest you roll back any drivers
you installed previous to it working, login to a tty 'ctrl-alt-F1' 

 

Steps 

1.       roll back (uninstall the restricted drivers)

2.       reinstall xorg or x11-drivers

3.       you might have to edit xorg.conf

 

Once you get X running ....try commands like 'glxgears', glsinfo

 

 

 

Good luck

George

 

From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Jimmy Wu
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 12:41 PM
To: ubuntu-users
Subject: problem with Xorg

 

Hi everyone,

 

Something has gone wrong with my computer, and I'm not quite sure what

I have Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty), and I was trying to enable hardware
acceleration for my graphics card (nvidia).

After searching around the internet, I found one suggested method of
doing so: go to Systems>Administration>Restricted Drivers

So I did that, and I checked enable for the nvidia driver (it was the
only one on the list).

Then, the Restricted Drivers Manager showed a progressbar indicating
that it was downloading and installing some packages.

While it was doing that, my computer randomly restarted, and now it
fails to boot properly.

A screen comes up that says could not load the X Window System (I have
7.2), and an option to show more info. If I hit enter on that, it
displays some system info as well as the following:

 

Backtrace:

0:/usr/X11R6/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x81) [0x80c5d91]

1:[0xffffe420]

 

Fatal server error:

Caught signal 4.  Server aborting.

 

 

Does anyone know what happened?

Also, will reinstalling X solve the problem, and if so, how do I go
about doing that (from the wiki.x.org site, it seems I have to download
a ton of .tar.gz files, unpack them, and build them myself).  I have
very little experience compiling programs from scratch, and I was
wondering if there was an easier way to do it.  

 

Thanks,

 

Jimmy

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