9.10 upgrade: X server suddenly shuts down again after starting it

[eds_oyo]

Hi, I've just upgraded from 9.04 to 9.10, and all went fine until i restarted and the GUI didn't show up.

I logged in and tried 'startx'.

What happens then is i see the NVIDIA logo for a split second, and then the start menu line and mouse pointer. But about 10 seconds after having typed 'startx' the GUI dissapears and the screen log says:



...
waiting for X server to shut down ddxSigGiveUp: Closing log

xxxxxx@htpc-oyo:~$ The last lines of the Xorg.0.log is:



...
(][) Initialzing extension GLX
(][) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "800x600"
ddxSigGiveUp: Closing log
Any suggestions as to what's wrong?

I have tried reinstalling the nvidia-glx-185 driver and reconfigured them with 'nvidia-xconfig' and 'nvidia-settings', but none of this helped.

[eds_oyo]

bump.. anyone? :(

[Dark_Stang]

So did you do an upgrade or a clean install to 9.10?

[eds_oyo]

I did an upgrade to 9.10. I've spent way too many hours configuring it and setting it up to give in and do a clean install. :/ Any tips anyone?

[tortaman]

try this from a console:


sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf

and paste or write this:


Section "Device"

Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "vesa"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"
EndSection


and then save...
now restart gdm with:


sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start

this will help you to get the X working with vesa graphics

karmic comes without xorg.conf on /etc/X11/