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messed with net settings, now X won't start

i am on campus at Rutgers U. and last night tried to register my computer with their network, and did so successfully, however i still had no internet access. so i tried to change some of my local internet settings, then rebooted, and x wouldn't start. all i had was a command line prompt. i logged in, and tried "startx" and it gave me this error:

Code:



(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module!

(EE) NVIDIA(0):  *** Aborting ***

(II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"

(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.



Fatal server error:

no screens found

after searching on these forums i found other people with the same error, however it seems like all of them modified their kernel before hand, which i did not do at all. all i did was remove my internet connection and add it again, would this have messed up the kernel?

thanks in advance,

mgy

found on some other thread the suggestion to try "modprobe nvidia," i did this and then tried "startx," and it worked. however i have to do that every time i start linux now... can i have this loaded into mem automatically?

mgy

I'm not a guru, but I know you can designate a module to load every time you boot without having to type modprobe every time. Try looking at /etc/modprobe.conf as it talks about this file in # man modprobe but I can't say for sure right now. Good luck.