[mythtv-users] X Not Starting - NVIDIA 260.19.12 driver upgrade

[tortise]

On 8/11/2010 5:09 p.m., Nick Rout wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 4:24 PM, tortise<tortise at paradise.net.nz>  wrote:
>> Yesterday I upgraded my boxes from 23 to 23.1 along with all the usual
>> updates.  I note the other 3G Pentium (and all C2D's) upgraded to 260.19.12
>> and brought through the xorg.conf settings fine.
>>
>> The second upgraded Pentium 3000 now fails to start X, no matter what I do.
>>   I've edited the xorg.conf settings, run nvidia-xconfig (and written a
>> "clean" new xorg.conf) and also deleted the nouveau component that was
>> showing under synaptic.  X still won't start. (The other boxes are running
>> 260.19.12 fine.)
>>
>> Both Intel 3000's are running
>> 2.6.32-25-generic-pae #45-Ubuntu SMP Sat Oct 16 21:01:33 UTC 2010 i686
>> GNU/Linux
>> Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS
>> although the good one is using an ASUS motherboard and the not so good one
>> is Gigabyte.  (= Different kit)
>>
>> Any ideas what now?
>
> yes, read /var/log/Xorg.0.log
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Sorry, I had intended to paste this in too:

/var/log/gdm/:0.log
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/extra-modules/nvidia_drv.so
(II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
	compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
FATAL: Module nvidia not found.
(EE) NVIDIA: Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module. Please check your
(EE) NVIDIA:     system's kernel log for additional error messages.
(II) Unloading /usr/lib/xorg/extra-modules/nvidia_drv.so
(EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module-specific error, 0)
(EE) No drivers available.