startx fails to start [solved]

[camorri]

I borked my system. I had way too many kernels installed, and decided to clean things up a little. Well, I cleanded it up and removed my Nvidia driver module.

 

I can boot to a command prompt, and from what I can tell, the rest of the system is intact.

 

If I run startx, it fails with the following error;

 

Could not open /lib/modules/2.6.22.18-desktop-1mdv/kernel/drivers/char/drm/nvidia96xx.ko.gz, no such file or directory.

 

The path is there, just no nvidia96xx.ko.gz file.

 

How do I figure out what package that file is in? If I could answer that, I could use URPMI to install the missing package.

 

I looked at the log file and saw nothing unusual, other than the file is missing.

 

This is Mandriva - One 2008 free.

 

FWIW, uanme -a reports - rest

 

Linux duelie 2.6.22.18-desktop586-1mdv #SMP.... The rest is hardware info.

This is a 32 bit system, not 64bit.

 

 

[moved from Software by spinynorman]

[Dark]

at command prompt as root can run XFdrake and reconfigure your X server.

 

Also if Nvidia then dkms-nvidia should take care of the proprietary driver

[scarecrow]

As root:

nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Now find "nvidia" and replace it with "vesa"

Save and reboot, or restrart X.

This solution is far from perfect, but it will allow you correcting your problems from a GUI, and not from console.

[camorri]

Thanks guys, I used input from both of you to fix it. To fix it I,

 

1. ran urpmi dkms-nvidia ; this found 3 packages I had removed. I instlled them.

 

2. At this point startx didn't work. Now I edited xorg.conf, and changed 'nvidia' to 'vesa' Tried startx, got a blue screen for about 30 seconds, but no desktop.

 

3. Ran XFdrake as root, picked the proprietory driver. Did a startx and presto, it all works.

 

Thank-you! :D