must rmmod nvidia & modprobe nvidia to start X

Zach uid000 at gmail.com
Sun Feb 10 13:47:05 UTC 2008


Just bumping this message.  Does anyone have any advice about this or
even how to begin troubleshooting it?

Thanks
Zach

On Fri, Feb 8, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Zach <uid000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  I have a problem where X won't start at boot.  If I log into a
>  terminal, and rmmod nvidia && modprobe nvidia, then X will run fine.
>  As a hack, i have this added to the gdm init script.  This is working,
>  but I'd like to solve the problem.
>
>  I have run across people on IRC as well as on forums who have this
>  similar problem, but I haven't seen any hint as to its cause or how to
>  actually fix it.
>
>  I am using the nvidia restricted drivers and Ubuntu 7.10.
>
>  Thanks for any help.
>
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