[ltp] x startup issues

[Takis Diakoumis]

hi

yep... i should have added that i build the nvidia driver against the
running kernel myself - i'm not using the packaged ones.

i am currently on 190.53 (the latest). i have also tried 190.42 and
185.18 (which doesn't work at all). i just downloaded 177.70.33 which i
will build shortly (though given the issues i had with 185 i'm not
confident). i am running xorg from debian testing (squeeze) - version
7.4.

cheers
Takis

On Thu, 2009-12-24 at 19:29 +0100, Paul Seelig wrote:
> You didn't specify which nvidia driver package you are using. I had
> similar issues running Debian/unstable (sorry, can't distinguish between
> these rather unspecific "cute" release names) on a T61-64607EU.
> 
> The issue was completely solved by simply switching to the
> nvidia-kernel-legacy-173xx driver package, instead of using the standard
> nvidia-glx package.
> 
> Does this solve your issue?
> 
> On 12/24/2009 09:10 AM, Takis Diakoumis wrote:
> > i've got a T61 running debian squeeze with some rather odd X startup
> > problems. in short sometimes its fine and i'm presented with the gdm
> > login screen - other times x fails to start on boot altogether. there is
> > no error reported in Xorg.0.log. i have nvidia graphics and i'm running
> > the proprietary driver. if i login at the prompt and issue startx it
> > seems to run just fine and i get my desktop. 
> > 
> > has anyone encountered this before? suggestions? as a start, could i get
> > an xorg.conf from people successfully running with the nvidia
> > proprietary driver. 
> > 
> > also, i have found this reference which describes much of what i've
> > noticed too and points to breakages between the driver and xorg
> > packages...  http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=47152
> > 
> > thanks heaps
> > Takis
> > 
> >