{"id":52,"date":"2007-06-13T14:56:12","date_gmt":"2007-06-13T22:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/2007\/06\/13\/xorg-stopped-working\/"},"modified":"2007-06-13T14:56:12","modified_gmt":"2007-06-13T22:56:12","slug":"xorg-stopped-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/2007\/06\/13\/xorg-stopped-working\/","title":{"rendered":"Xorg stopped working …"},"content":{"rendered":"

Updated my Debian system last night and this moring Xorg wouldn’t work. In \/var\/log\/Xorg.0.log at the end of the file is this:<\/p>\n

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(II) LoadModule: “nvidia”
\n(WW) Warning, couldn’t open module nvidia
\n(II) UnloadModule: “nvidia”
\n(EE) Failed to load module “nvidia” (module does not exist, 0)
\n(II) LoadModule: “keyboard”
\n(II) Loading \/usr\/lib\/xorg\/modules\/input\/\/keyboard_drv.so
\n(II) Module keyboard: vendor=”X.Org Foundation”
\ncompiled for 7.1.1, module version = 1.0.0
\nModule class: X.Org XInput Driver
\nABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 0.6
\n(II) LoadModule: “mouse”
\n(II) Loading \/usr\/lib\/xorg\/modules\/input\/\/mouse_drv.so
\n(II) Module mouse: vendor=”X.Org Foundation”
\ncompiled for 7.1.1, module version = 1.1.1
\nModule class: X.Org XInput Driver
\nABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 0.6
\n(EE) No drivers available.<\/p>\n

Fatal server error:
\nno screens found<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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<\/blockquote>\n
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Looks like \/usr\/lib\/xorg\/modules\/drivers\/nvidia_drv.so is missing.<\/p>\n

Found the fix here:
\n<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/bugs.debian.org\/cgi-bin\/bugreport.cgi?bug=420177<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/bugs.debian.org\/cgi-bin\/bugreport.cgi?bug=428580<\/a><\/p>\n

To create the .so file do the following (as root or using sudo):<\/p>\n

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cd \/usr\/lib\/xorg\/modules\/drivers<\/p>\n

gcc -shared -o nvidia_drv.so nvidia_drv.o<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Updated my Debian system last night and this moring Xorg wouldn’t work. In \/var\/log\/Xorg.0.log at the end of the file is this: (II) LoadModule: “nvidia” (WW) Warning, couldn’t open module nvidia (II) UnloadModule: “nvidia” (EE) Failed to load module “nvidia” (module does not exist, 0) (II) LoadModule: “keyboard” (II) Loading \/usr\/lib\/xorg\/modules\/input\/\/keyboard_drv.so (II) Module keyboard: vendor=”X.Org … Continue reading Xorg stopped working …<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}