[Mageia-dev] Latest update borked my x server

Wolfgang Bornath molch.b at googlemail.com
Tue Jan 29 10:15:53 CET 2013


2013/1/29 Thomas Backlund <tmb at mageia.org>:
> Wolfgang Bornath skrev 29.1.2013 10:26:
>
>> Installed MGA3 Beta2 including proprietary nvidia driver, working nicely.
>>
>> After doing updates including kernel 3.8.0-desktop-0.rc5.1.mga3 the
>> startup process stopped and showed a message that a display driver
>> module is loaded which conflicts with the current setup (translation
>> from German) and so x server may not start correctly. And so it was:
>> after "Started LSB: Nameserver information manager" the start process
>> hangs. Switching to VT2 and logging in, giviong the command 'startx'
>> fails:
>>
>> modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia_current': No such device
>> modprobe: ERROR: Error running install command for nvidia
>> modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia'; Operation not permitted
>> (EE) Server termibnated with error (1)
>> xinit: giving up
>> xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused
>> xinit: server error
>>
>> That's it.
>>
>
> Seems nouveau blacklisting is being ignored :/
> So it blocks the nvidia driver from loading properly
>
> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8863

Yes, bug report describes exactly what's happening here (in better English).
I added 64-bit platform.

-- 
wobo


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