Guy Rutenberg

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NVidia driver fails to initialize after X restart

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This is mainly a note to myself. Sometimes when the X server is restart it complains that nvidia driver couldn’t be initialized and that no screens were found. This may be a result of a version mismatch between X11’s and the kernel’s nvidia module. The solution is to

modprobe -r nvidia

before restarting the X server.

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Written by Guy

November 14th, 2009 at 5:19 pm

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  1. modbrobe?!?!

    Don’t you mean ‘modprobe’?

    muman613

    23 Feb 10 at 23:19

  2. Thanks, I fixed the typo.

    Guy

    25 Feb 10 at 22:40

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