Re: nvidia or Xorg broken on head

From: Guido Falsi <mad_at_madpilot.net>
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 18:14:35 +0200
On 09/12/16 18:05, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
>   Hi!
> 
>   Upgraded to yesterdays head (and packages) and
> now my X doesn't come up. Black screen with vt(4)'s
> cursor in left upper corner and with vt(4)'s mouse
> pointer. I'm able to switch to other console.
> 
> Haven't yet done any bisecting, just a heads up
> for anyone encountering the same.
> 

New nvidia driver has two kernel modules, most probably you also need to
load nvidia-modeset.ko.

Check nvidia driver pkg-message (pkg info -D nvidia-driver), should have
instructions about this.

-- 
Guido Falsi <mad_at_madpilot.net>
Received on Mon Sep 12 2016 - 14:14:40 UTC

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