Mandrake 10.0 xserver crash

walter · 03-11-2004, 04:50 PM

Upgraded to 10.0 from a stable 9.2. Install went well but when I rebooted the system xserver failed to load. Can't start KDE, Gnome or any desktop. Any ideas on how to repair or get X to run?

Thanks in advance!

wmartino · 03-11-2004, 05:19 PM

It could be as simple as reconfiguring your X server. Try running xf86config and redo all of your video card settings. I hope that helps.

walter · 03-11-2004, 05:21 PM

Thks wmartino. I've tried that already but no luck. Still playing around with xf86 but if nothing then guess will have to reinstall. Any other ideas are most welcomed!

wmartino · 03-11-2004, 05:26 PM

When you say you upgraded do you do a fresh install. I have found in the past that the upgrade function with mandrake is not very good.

Also what kind of video card do you have?

walter · 03-11-2004, 06:01 PM

The card is nvidia tnt64.

My machine was running 9.2 without any problems. In retrospect I guess I made the mistake of upgrading to 10.0 instead of doing a fresh install. As I said the install went smoothly no problems except now i can't get a gui to run.

As root I ran xf86config entered the generic nvidia drivers since I cannot find spefic drivers for the tnt64 card and no luck.

Now my alternative I guess is to reinstall 10.0 this time using the install function. Now I'm not sure if I do that will I destroy all the data that I had on the machine? I guess if I don't mess around with the partitions then 10.0 should install freshly ontop of itself?

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

walter · 03-11-2004, 06:56 PM

Wmartino,

Well, I rebooted with the iso cd's and upgraded 10.0 ontop of itself. Since there was nothing to upgrade once i was taken to the configure page for the services and equipment, I changed the video card to generic 'nv'. Finished the install, rebooted and XF86 started! Brilliant! Gotta love linux and the community! if I were using windoze would be looking at reformating and installing again.

Thanks again for your suggestions!

wmartino · 03-11-2004, 07:21 PM

I am glad you got it working. Yes you gotta love the linux. I have only been using since September but since then I have to linux boxes running. One is an email and web server the other a desktop unit. Anyway enough rambling glad you got it working.