camorri Posted March 14, 2008 Report Share Posted March 14, 2008 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] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Posted March 14, 2008 Report Share Posted March 14, 2008 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted March 14, 2008 Report Share Posted March 14, 2008 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camorri Posted March 14, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 14, 2008 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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