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Old 11-17-2004, 08:31 AM   #1
Belegdol
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I have to reinstall nvidia driver every boot in 10.1 community


I've upgraded 10.0 to 10.1 and then encountered a login problem:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=255470
I've uninstalled devfsd and solved it but now I have to reinstall driver, run init 3 and then init 5 every boot up. Is this some kind of issue with udev? The necessity to reinstall it every time is very confusing.

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Old 11-17-2004, 10:02 AM   #2
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Check you /etc/modprobe.preload file. Make sure it has a line that says nvidia in it. That should fix it. The nvidia module is probably not getting loaded when you boot.
You can also do it manually by typing

$ modprobe nvidia

Adding the nvidia line to the modprobe.preload file does this for you. It loads the module at boot.
 
Old 11-18-2004, 09:23 AM   #3
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stuck in command line atm

i attemped install nvidia driver. it aint working

i followed the directions in this post
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...icle&artid=113

i saw the spashscreen as soon as i was done and typed init 5 in root.

so i then logged out and loggin as user and init 5 again. it worked breifly cuase i could see the screen on my tv then both screens began bugging out on me. i managed to get back to command line from memory cuase i cound't see anything. i tryed init 5 from root again and got error messages and then user the same. mow i'm stuck in command line with no clue how to edit the config files from command line.

also. i seem to be cd'ing around incorectly. if i type cd/ect/x11/ it claimes no such follder or file. how do i cd around with precise typing?

if i can reedit the file i can then post the error log it recomended i view. i asume that woiuld give the proper info you guys need to help me out.
 
Old 11-18-2004, 10:11 AM   #4
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If you want to cd around you need to do it like so

cd /usr/bin


make sure the space is there. Also, make sure you use proper capitalization where needed


Now, to get you back running. Did you get an error when you started X? What was the error?

To get back started do this

vi /etc/X11/XF86Config

after it opens, hit the insert key on your keyboard

find the line that shows your driver as "nvidia" and change it to "nv"

save it by hitting the escape key and typing :wq!

reboot and that should get you back into KDE
As for the nvidia driver problem. I need to know the error you had, look in the log and see if its still there.
 
Old 11-18-2004, 12:33 PM   #5
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ok. vi was easy. and nice colors to seperate everything. i'll be doing my config editing with vi form now on. thnks

to spare everyone the huge log file being in the thread i placed it here http://www.geocities.com/mountainless/Xorg.0.log

thnks

Last edited by reverendm; 11-18-2004 at 12:47 PM.
 
Old 11-19-2004, 06:55 PM   #6
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hmm. either he has not checked up on it or nobody has a clue.
please hurry. i have some movies i would like to watch. please don't force me to use windows. it has adware/visus/privacy apps running on it that i can not remove. no matter how hard i try. and don't try to give me advice. i know too much about winblows. i can totaly fubar it all to fix it but would rather wipe and reinstall. and i don't whant to do that atm.

help me enjoy linux.

thnks

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