[Solved] X not starting

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Hi,

after upgrading from 14.0 to 14.1 (64bit, XFCE) along the "how to", I tried to install the proprietary nvidia driver, latest version.
However, the installation failed due to kernel-version mismatch.

When trying to boot, X will not come up.
So I removed the blacklist entry for the noveau driver and installed the xf86-video-noveau package.

However, I still cannot get the X-system to run.

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modprobe: FATAL: Module nvidia not found
...
Fatal server error:
(EE) no screens found (EE)

I am a bit lost how to get the setup right...

Any hint?

Thanks.

[laprjns]

Hi,

after upgrading from 14.0 to 14.1 (64bit, XFCE) along the "how to", I tried to install the proprietary nvidia driver, latest version.
However, the installation failed due to kernel-version mismatch.

Sounds like you tried installing the nvidia driver before you booted into the new 14.1 kernel

Any hint?

Try this. Boot into run level 3, which will not be hard since x doesn't work. Install the kernel-source package if it's not already installed, then try runing the nvidia driver install script again.

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sudo ./NVIDIA-Linux-your-version.run

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You are 100% right!

I was obviously too fast and that caused the kernel mismatch, so failed install.

Now all is ok!

Thanks!