RE: X server problem after up2date

["Thom DeCarlo" <t r decarlo LARC NASA GOV>]

Yeah, I did rerun the NVIDIA installer... and that's when all heck broke
loose. Before doing that I was at least able to get the X server started.
Now it looks like two of them are trying to start.

Are you sure it's not Thursday? I never could get the hang of Thursdays.

Thanks,
Thom
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Thom DeCarlo
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     That Which Does Not Kill Me
       Can Still Hurt Really Bad.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: taroon-list-bounces redhat com [mailto:taroon-list-
> bounces redhat com] On Behalf Of Collins, Kevin (MindWorks)
> Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 4:13 PM
> To: Discussion of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (Taroon)
> Subject: RE: X server problem after up2date
> 
> Ed,
> 
> 	forgive my obvious question, but did you read the original post?
> :) Its Friday, relax...
> 
> >acceleration. So, I reran the NVIDIA driver installer (version 7174).
> 
> Kevin
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: taroon-list-bounces redhat com
> [mailto:taroon-list-bounces redhat com] On Behalf Of Ed Westphal
> Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 1:04 PM
> To: Discussion of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (Taroon)
> Subject: Re: X server problem after up2date
> 
> 
>     Forgive the obvious question, but you have tried re-installing the
> NVidia driver? In my hands, the run script would un-install any previous
> 
> versions it finds and go about it's business of putting the new version
> in it's place. I'm also assuming you've done this from a non X-server
> boot?, i.e. text mode only by modifying initd? If you've rebooted to a
> faulty xconfig, you may have to go in and  manually edit that as well
> with VI or your favorite text editor. It should work, unless you have
> some other non-standard kernel utils compiled in?
> 
> Thom DeCarlo wrote:
> 
> >I've really mucked things up this time...
> >
> >I just ran up2date and it loaded a new version of the kernel
> >(2.4.0.21-32....) and the accompanying kernel source and utilities.
> >
> >I then noticed that openGL applications were not using the hardware
> >acceleration. So, I reran the NVIDIA driver installer (version 7174).
> >
> >Now when I boot I get the message "There already appears to be an X
> server
> >running on display :0. Should I attempt to try another display number?"
> >
> >Uninstalling the NVIDIA drivers doesn't make it any happier. Can anyone
> tell
> >me how to recover from here?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Thom
> >
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