Re: Weird things with Xorg on amd54

["Hans-J. Ullrich" <hans.ullrich@loop.de>]

Am Mittwoch, 19. Mai 2010 schrieb Norval Watson:
> > On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 05:01:35PM -0700, Norval Watson wrote:
> > When I
> > dist-upgraded recently, debian's 2.6.32-5-amd64 kernel broke x, as in I
> > cannot start (or restart) gdm.
> > The 2.6.32-3-amd64 kernel works fine.
> 
> Are
> 
> > you running the fglrx or nvidia driver by any chance?  If so
> > you
> 
> probably just have to rebuild the module against the new kernel
> 
> > using
> 
> module-assistant.  of course the nvidia driver is moving to dkms
> 
> > and
> 
> hence no longer will need manual work it seems.
> 
> > Sorensen
> 
> I am just running nv driver with latest kernel, have not had time to
> update nvidia driver yet, thanks Lennart for the heads-up re dkms, I
> will check it out!
> Norv


I solved it for me by blacklisting the "nouveau" kernel module.
It seems, this happens with nvidia cards. 

If you are running nv or the 3d accelerated nvidia-glx driver, you can either 
delete the nouveau driver or blacklist it.

Good luck!

Hans