must rmmod nvidia & modprobe nvidia to start X

[Sven Richter]

On Tuesday 12 February 2008 01:11:42 Sven Richter wrote:
> Hi Zach,
>
> On Friday 08 February 2008 17:34:40 Zach wrote:
> > 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 experienced the same problem after the upgrade from feisty to
> gutsy.
> Briefly explained, after updating i tried out the drivers from
> ubuntu, nvidia-glx-new, or something like that.
> But they didnt work for me like i wanted, so i thought i removed
> them and installed the binary drivers from nvidia.
> Same thing happened to me, i had to rmmod nvidia and modprobe
> nvidia after a reboot.
>
> It didnt annoy me much, but after a while i had some time and fiddled
> around with the drivers, removing, purging and reinstalling the binary
> driver, and out of the blue it worked.
> So far so good.
>
> Saturday i broke my mainboard and got a new one, and because
> i had one free day i wanted to install hardy on a software raid.
> Said, Done, everything works fine.
>
> I installed the binary driver from nvidia, and whoosh, the same problem
> again, i have to rmmod nvidia and modprobe nvidia again to get X working
> after a reboot.
>
> Just a few seconds ago i removed nvidia-kernel-module, and tomorrow
> i can tell you if X works without the procedure.
>
> I believe that nvidia-kernel-module breaks the binary driver.

Removing nvidia-kernel-common worked for me :-)
X starts now without problems.