cynicl12000
December 5th, 2009, 06:24 AM
Please bare with me, as my experience with Linux/Ubuntu is minimal.
I have installed 9.10, and was quickly (through some online help) able to get my wireless & NVidia graphics driver (non-free from NVidia's site) running.
Everything was moving along fine until my most recent set of updates.
Firstly, while rebooting after a system update today, I was greeted with a warning saying that I could not run in my standard graphics mode. I tried to make sense of the error log, which had something to do with not being able to load the NVidia module, and was sent directly to the terminal login for tty1.
I logged in and reinstalled the NVidia driver, then used the command:
sudo service gdm start
and was greeted by the graphical login screen. Success, right?
Not exactly...now, when I reboot, I am occassionally sent directly to the graphical login screen and occassionally sent to the terminal login for tty1. If I wait long enought (some times up to 5 minutes), gdm will eventually start.
If I manually start the service, I can get into the graphical login.
My best guess is that some service/module is not consistently loading correctly while Gnome is trying to start, but I'm at a loss to figure out which one. Would any of you gurus mind pointing me in the right direction? I'm trying to learn, not just get it working, so I would really love either a reference, or an explanation instead of just code.
Thanks for putting up with my extensively worded quandry, and thanks in advance for any advice,
Tim
I have installed 9.10, and was quickly (through some online help) able to get my wireless & NVidia graphics driver (non-free from NVidia's site) running.
Everything was moving along fine until my most recent set of updates.
Firstly, while rebooting after a system update today, I was greeted with a warning saying that I could not run in my standard graphics mode. I tried to make sense of the error log, which had something to do with not being able to load the NVidia module, and was sent directly to the terminal login for tty1.
I logged in and reinstalled the NVidia driver, then used the command:
sudo service gdm start
and was greeted by the graphical login screen. Success, right?
Not exactly...now, when I reboot, I am occassionally sent directly to the graphical login screen and occassionally sent to the terminal login for tty1. If I wait long enought (some times up to 5 minutes), gdm will eventually start.
If I manually start the service, I can get into the graphical login.
My best guess is that some service/module is not consistently loading correctly while Gnome is trying to start, but I'm at a loss to figure out which one. Would any of you gurus mind pointing me in the right direction? I'm trying to learn, not just get it working, so I would really love either a reference, or an explanation instead of just code.
Thanks for putting up with my extensively worded quandry, and thanks in advance for any advice,
Tim