Aghh. Intrepid crashing on start up. Emergency Help Please

[dibl]

Re: Aghh. Intrepid crashing on start up. Emergency Help Please

Hmmm -- OK, yes, this looks like progress.

Since we are trying to use EnvyNG, you need to ignore the "Restricted Driver Available" messages, and also you need to stay far away from System Settings>Display.

So, at the command prompt that comes up after the "unable to launch failsafe x session", go ahead and log in. To make certain that KDM is not try to run, issue

sudo /etc/init.d/kdm stop

Then when you have the prompt again, issue

sudo envyng -t

Choose #1 "install the driver". This time, when it tells you to reboot, DON'T. Just exit the EnvyNG program, which will take you back to the command prompt. At the command prompt, again issue

sudo nvidia-xconfig --add-argb-glx-visuals --composite

Take note of whether it again appears to generate an error during this process.

Then do a shutdown restart by issuing:

sudo shutdown -r now

and let's see how you fare.

[Peter Randall]

Re: Aghh. Intrepid crashing on start up. Emergency Help Please

Thanks again.

I followed your instructions.
EnvyNG says the driver is installed. As instructed I selected the install option. Rather than go through the whole process it went quickly to the operation successful line.
I exited without restarting. and then entered the nvidia-xconfig line.
I got exactly the same error message but this time referring to line 31 instead of line 35.
When I restarted and tried to log in i got the same x session unable to launch message.

What do I do next please?

Regards

Peter

[Peter Randall]

Re: Aghh. Intrepid crashing on start up. Emergency Help Please

I don't know if this helps.
i entered my system using startx
I looked in the etc file in Root for etc/x11/xorg.config
There are now 4 backup copies as well as the file itself.
The contents of the file are copied below:

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder57)  Mon Oct 27 14:37:20 PST 2008

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier    "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load          "dbe"
    Load          "extmod"
    Load          "type1"
    Load          "freetype"
    Load          "glx"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier    "Mouse0"
    Driver        "mouse"
    Option        "Protocol" "auto"
    Option        "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option        "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option        "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier    "Keyboard0"
    Driver        "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier    "Monitor0"
    VendorName    "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Unknown"
    HorizSync      30.0 - 110.0
    VertRefresh    50.0 - 150.0
    Option        "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier    "Device0"
    Driver        "nvidia"
    VendorName    "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier    "Screen0"
    Device        "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option        "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
    SubSection    "Display"
        Depth      24
        Modes      "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option        "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

Incidentally, the screen has stopped flickering.

Regards

Peter

[Peter Randall]

Re: Aghh. Intrepid crashing on start up. Emergency Help Please

Well I've sorted the problem by doing what I asked about in quite an early post. I've formatted the root drive and installed Hardy with KDE 3.5. The thing is now working again.

Hardy ran fine from the live disc whereas Intrepid would only run in safe video mode.

I am still puzzled as to why intrepid ran OK for 24 hours before crashing.

This is a real shame as KDE4 looks great. However I feel it should still be in beta release. The forum is littered with posts in the Intrepid section from folk having problems with graphics issues. Unless this can be resolved we will be waiting for KDE 4.999 before we dare use it.

I am just an ordinary user who has enjoyed the fabulous stability of what I had before. I switched it on, it ran. I switched it off. I switched it on it ran and so on and so on. No bother with Blue screens, viruses, worms, trojans and all of that malarky, and great software. (It took me nearly a week to sort out my teenage daughter's MS machine after it became infected with a worm/trojan despite having AV software installed).

I look forward to using a newer release of the OS and KDE 4 when the thing is sorted.

Much thanks to those who tried to help me sort my problem.

Regards

Peter Randall