Amorphous_Snake Posted January 29, 2008 Report Share Posted January 29, 2008 I installed Mandriva 2008 One (Gnome edition). The installation went fine and everything worked. When I tried to update the packages, I noticed that a lot of the packages were useless, for example, I have a nvidia Geforce 6600 card, why were the ATI drivers (fglx) installed along with their kernels? The same goes for the extra language packages (I chose US English) but I found that almost half a dozen other languages were installed, along with their files for Firefox and OO.org. So I tried to clean up things a bit, I deleted every unnecessary file and kept the "current" driver for nvidia as this is the one I used to install when I used 2007.1 before. Now I can't log on the GUI. What shall I do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted January 30, 2008 Report Share Posted January 30, 2008 I would log in to the console. su to root, type mc, and then edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file to use the vesa driver. Then I would log in to the gui, and open a console, su to root, and type XFdrake. This will reinitialize the nvidia driver installation in X. If it does not, then reinstall nvidia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CygnusX1 Posted January 30, 2008 Report Share Posted January 30, 2008 you can also run drakx11 as root to set up the vesa driver or to download the current nvidia one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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