On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 14:54 +0000, Peter Alcibiades wrote:
In another part of the wood, another Mandriva system, after system update it cannot start X. Then, same process as above, it can start X but only in 640 x 480 mode. The solution here turned out to be, use the xorg not the nvidia drivers, and all was fine again.
This used to happen to me infrequently on Suse as well..It means that either the modules were installed via the nvidia installer and therefore compiled against a running kernel that has been updated and therefore they will not load...or if they were installed via a Mandriva package for some reason you did not receive an updated package to match the updated kernel.
Fortunately for my sanity the Ubuntu packaged nvidia kernel drivers are generally "recent enough" to live with and they seem to never fail in keeping them in sync with kernel updates. Now with ubuntu once again including the VMware kernel taint modules I don't have to worry about any recompile dances after a kernel update.