nvidia and etch
 

i posted this elsewhere, but was told to make a new thread,so here goes. i installed the nvidia graphics driver in etch and all worked fine for about 3 days. when i went to start it yesterday no nvidia splash screen and no gnome desktop. i had to edit xorg.conf and change the driver back to nv to get etch to boot. i installed the driver using module-assistant and all went well til now. when i typed the command, grep "EE" /var/log/Xorg.0.log i get;
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
(EE) Failed to initialize GLX extension (Compatible NVIDIA X driver not found. anyone know what i can do?

Why did it broke? Perhaps you apt-get upgrade? Perhaps a new install?

nvidia and etch
 

no, i didnt do a upgrade or new install. when i started the computer up it would not load the desktop until i changed the driver in xorg.conf from "nvidia" to "nv". then it worked.

did you add load GLX to the XORG.CONF and delete load DRI

well if you do lsmod is nvidia listed in the loaded modules ?

apt-cache policy nvidia-glx

is nvidia-glx installed ?

a kernel update will break the nvidia driver and it would show as soon as you reboot the machine.
you could zip through the module assitant steps again to ensure the compiled modules match your current kernel version.. only take a minute or so to do..

/etc/init.d/gdm stop - shut down X

m-a update
m-a prepare
m-a a-i nvidia
aptitude update
aptitude install nvidia-glx

edit your xorg.conf and switch nv back to nvidia

/etc/init.d/gdm start - see if you have the nvidia driver back