Bug#611425: Installing nvidia driver silences bell

[Andreas Beckmann]

Hi Joe,

On 2011-01-29 21:39, Joe Riel wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 20:29:15 +0100
> Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de> wrote:
> 
>> On 2011-01-29 19:34, Joe Riel wrote:
>>> Did so.  Installation seemed to go okay.  But upon rebooting 
>>> X would not come up.  Attached are the relevant logs, 
>>> with extension .exp
>>
>> Xorg didn't even try to load the nvidia driver - how does your
>> /etc/X11/xorg.conf look like? Did you change it? Do you have an
>> Xorg.?.log from the configuration directly before you switched to
>> experimental? I.e. using the nvidia driver from testing.
> 
> No, I was using the nouveau driver, which doesn't use an xorg.conf.
> When I previously installed the nvidia driver I believe it 
> created an appropriate xorg.conf.  I didn't check this time and have
> since purged nvidia, so cannot immediately verify.  
> Do I need to install something else to generate the xorg.conf?  
> I can hand create it (it's simple enough), but that shouldn't be
> necessary.

Did you further investigate this problem with the nvidia driver? Is it
reproducible in the current version, 270.41.06-1 is available in unstable?


Andreas