NVIDIA and X4.1 weirdness

[Slackmonster]

Hello, hoping someone can figure this one out.
I had X up and running successfully with the nvidia drivers and glx loaded but was working on my mouse setup. I change nothing but the mouse settings, shutdown for a break, turn computer back on, log in and try to run X. It craps with a "no screens found" error. Anyone ever experience this? Please remember I changed nothing other than mouse devices before logging out. Thanks in advance.

[Apostata]

Considering you just changed the mouse properties, that is weird.

Possibly redundant but thorough question:

Does X crap-out as root, or only as user? If it only craps-out as user, perhaps you first need to grant permissions.

If it craps-out as both root and user (with the same warning about screens) perhaps you should post your screens section.

[jrbush82]

How did you change your mouse settings? Did you do xf86config? If so, that saves any and all changes that were made. So if you installed the NVIDIA drivers by yourself from NVIDIA, then you would probably have to go back into the /etc/X11/XF86Config file and edit it again. Just a suggestion... always make a backup of XF86Config file if you changing something :)

Hope this may be of some help.

[bdg1983]

If you do have a backup copy of your XF86Config(-4), then copy the 'Screen' section from the backup to the new. Else you will need to reconfigure it all.

No screens found...

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Generic Monitor"
DefaultDepth 16
Subsection "Display"
Depth 32
Modes "1600x1200/75Hz" "640x480"
Virtual 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1600x1200/75Hz" "640x480"
Virtual 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1600x1200/75Hz" "640x480"
Virtual 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1600x1200/75Hz" "640x480"
Virtual 0 0
EndSubsection

[Apostata]

mdwatts iv (aka logon name gone), what the heck is going on? Are you being punished?

[Slackmonster]

Ack sorry it is taking me so long to answer your questions, I was locked out of my house for 4 hours today. :( I really appreciate your suggestions so far.

So far I only have root set up on this box. I'm just getting it stable then I'll mess with other users. I was making the changes manually by directly editing the file. But the only thing I was doing was playing with the mouse protocol and device setting. (Intellimouse and /dev/psaux- that type of stuff)

I'll have to check again and see if it blasted the screens section.

S

[Slackmonster]

Just in case any of you run into this problem...

In the end I had to reinstall the nvidia drivers. This would resolve the problem until I rebooted and then it would go right back to erroring out with "no screens found" upon a reboot. Oh well I've had it. I've given up and am now up and running with Redhat 7.1. Please see my post in the RANTS section titled "Why do I always have to do things the hard way?!?!?"

Thanks for your help guys and gals...I really appreciate it.

[bdg1983]

Originally posted by Apostata:
<STRONG>mdwatts iv (aka logon name gone), what the heck is going on? Are you being punished?</STRONG>

I must be. Maybe the next time it happens, I'll take the hint and retire from LNO. Any good MS forums out there? ;)

[Xsecrets]

I'm having this problem too and what I've found is that for some reason the kernel module goes away when I reboot if I reinstall it then everything works great agian. Like I said I'm not really sure why this happens, but I know that is what is happening but haven't worried about why cause I have too many other details to iron out of this new install.

[kuber]

You need to add it to your boot scripts, ie 'insmod NVdriver' to init script.