problem with Xorg

[Jimmy Wu]

Sven,

On 7/5/07, Sven Richter <sveri-list at gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi Jimmy,
> On Thursday 05 July 2007 18:40:30 Jimmy Wu wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Something has gone wrong with my computer, and I'm not quite sure what
> > I have Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty), and I was trying to enable hardware
> > acceleration for my graphics card (nvidia).
> >
> Which card is it exactly?


I don't know much about graphics cards, but the error output says
nVidia Corporation NV4 [RIVA TNT]


>
> > Then, the Restricted Drivers Manager showed a progressbar indicating
> that
> > it was downloading and installing some packages.
> > While it was doing that, my computer randomly restarted, and now it
> fails
> > to boot properly.
> > A screen comes up that says could not load the X Window System (I have
> > 7.2), and an option to show more info. If I hit enter on that, it
> displays
> > some system info as well as the following:
> >
> I am wondering how a screen can come up if there is
> no x server running.


It's not really a graphical screen - text only.



> > Backtrace:
> > 0:/usr/X11R6/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x81) [0x80c5d91]
> > 1:[0xffffe420]
> >
> This is not very useful ;-)


I didn't think so.  Most hexadecimal numbers I've seen tend to be rather
cryptic.



> > Fatal server error:
> > Caught signal 4.  Server aborting.
> >
> Could you type in a console:
> cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE
> and
> cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep WW
> and send the output here to the list?
>
> This way you will get more useful error messages.
>

Results of cat with grep EE:

(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER

this probably isn't very useful (I think it found the EE in SCREEN)

Results of cat with grep WW
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist
(WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)
(WW) NIVIDIA (0): Multiple displays connected, but only one display allowed;
(WW) NIVIDIA (0):      using first display
(WW) NIVIDIA (0): Unresolved symbol: xf86ExecX86int10

Note: both of these outputs I had to copy on a sheet of paper and type into
this email, so there may be typos
the Multiple display warning confuses me: I only have one display (monitor,
right?) connected.

Thanks for your help.

Jimmy
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