Can't start X windows when the openSUSE11.4 kernel update to 2.6.37.6-0.7

ldonger · August 3, 2011, 2:06pm

Last night,I upgraded the kernel to 2.6.37.6-0.7,when I reboot the system it can’t start X windows.
the logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
no drivers
not srceen found

Who can help me?

oldcpu · August 3, 2011, 3:45pm

Can you reboot with FailSafe setting ?

Can you reboot with the grub menu boot option “nomodeset”.

Can you reboot to a full screen text mode by pressing “3” at the grub boot menu ?

If you can get to a failsafe GUI or to text prompt please type the following and copy it and post here the output:


/sbin/lpsci -nnk | grep VGA -A2

If you copy the output of that and paste it here, that will tell us what graphic hardware is on your PC.

Were you using a proprietary graphic driver ? If so, you will likely need to either rebuild the driver yourself, or install a prebuilt version of the driver for your updated kernel versioni.

oldcpu · August 3, 2011, 3:46pm

Was that supposed to be a link ?? Because if so, your link is no good.

ldonger · August 3, 2011, 4:45pm

oldcpu:

Can you reboot with FailSafe setting ?

Can you reboot with the grub menu boot option “nomodeset”.

Can you reboot to a full screen text mode by pressing “3” at the grub boot menu ?

If you can get to a failsafe GUI or to text prompt please type the following and copy it and post here the output:
/sbin/lpsci -nnk | grep VGA -A2
If you copy the output of that and paste it here, that will tell us what graphic hardware is on your PC.

Were you using a proprietary graphic driver ? If so, you will likely need to either rebuild the driver yourself, or install a prebuilt version of the driver for your updated kernel versioni.

graphic hardware:NVIDIA 8400M G
I have installed the official drivers.

ldonger · August 3, 2011, 4:59pm

oldcpu:

Can you reboot with FailSafe setting ?

Can you reboot with the grub menu boot option “nomodeset”.

Can you reboot to a full screen text mode by pressing “3” at the grub boot menu ?

If you can get to a failsafe GUI or to text prompt please type the following and copy it and post here the output:
/sbin/lpsci -nnk | grep VGA -A2
If you copy the output of that and paste it here, that will tell us what graphic hardware is on your PC.

Were you using a proprietary graphic driver ? If so, you will likely need to either rebuild the driver yourself, or install a prebuilt version of the driver for your updated kernel versioni.

I can start the failsafe GUI,when I running


/sbin/lpsci -nnk | grep VGA -A2

LD:/home/ldonger # /sbin/lpsci
bash: /sbin/lpsci: No such file or directory
LD:/home/ldonger #
LD:/home/ldonger #
LD:/home/ldonger # zypper in lpsci
Retrieving repository ‘Updates for openSUSE 11.4 11.4-0’ metadata [done]
Building repository ‘Updates for openSUSE 11.4 11.4-0’ cache [done]
Retrieving repository ‘google-chrome’ metadata [done]
Building repository ‘google-chrome’ cache [done]
Loading repository data…
Reading installed packages…
‘lpsci’ not found in package names. Trying capabilities.
No provider of ‘lpsci’ found.
Resolving package dependencies…

Nothing to do.

Then how should I do?

oldcpu · August 3, 2011, 5:08pm

Sorry, I’m bad. … I got my letters reversed (I’m typing too fast). That should read:


/sbin/lspci -nnk | grep VGA -A2

it stands for " list PCI " (devices) … ie ls for list, and pci for PCI.

oldcpu · August 3, 2011, 5:09pm

OK, then you need to either :
(1) rebuild the proprietary nVidia graphic driver (if you installed the proprietary driver the manual way), or
(2) re-install the proprietary nVidia graphic driver from the appropriate nVidia repository

ldonger · August 3, 2011, 5:25pm

Hi,oldcpu

I have solved this problem by reinstalling the Nvidia driver.
Thank you!