xorg problems...

[mercyful fate]

first off, i'm using sidux (debian sid)

i recently upgraded my nvidia drivers from nvidia.com, and now whenever i try to start X, i get a black screen with a frozen cursor in the top left corner. the whole comp just freezes up from there. can't get into another terminal or anything.

the only fix i've found is i have to boot into single user mode and reinstall the nvidia drivers on EACH boot. and even then i can only get into X as root. as user i get "X: User not authorized to run the X server, aborting."

to get in as my user i had to change my /etc/X11/Xwrapper.conf from...

allowed_users=console
nice_value=0

to

allowed_users=anybody
nice_value=0

anyone have any ideas on what could be wrong?

[deathadder]

I seem to remember, I'm going to have to google to double check, that I had problems with users not having permission to access /dev/nvidia0.

From what I remember I had to add myself to the video group.

Just to check, you're loading the nvidia module at boot in /etc/modules.

[mercyful fate]

yeah, my user is already in the video group and "nvidia" is already in /etc/modules/.

i also booted up from a livecd and copied over the xorg.conf just in case the nvidia setup messed it up in some way, and still the same problem...

any other ideas would be greatly appreciated!

[JohnT]

reinstall the nvidia drivers on EACH boot.

Your re-installing the driver or re-loading the module upon each boot? There is a difference.Could you clarify that point for someone not as intuitive as some.