etch and nvidia

[unisol1]

3d acceleration was workinf fine in etch (nvidia geforce 5500 fx) until today. when i type the command grep "EE" /var/log/Xorg.0.log i get the following message:
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
(EE) Failed to initialize GLX extension (Compatible NVIDIA X driver not found)
i had to edit the xorg.conf file and change nvidia to nv to boot into gnome. nvidia kernel module installed . anyone help?

[Daan]

I think I had the same problem. After each reboot. I used the installer from the nvidia website. Probably better to use the Debian packages.

[#chowned]

I am not sure what happened. Sounds kind of bizarre. At any rate if you are able to locate the glx module and put the entry in your xorg.conf file that should square you away so do this.
in a terminal:
sudo find / -name libglx.* (I cant remember the extension i think its .so)

so say its in /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so

Then in your xorg.conf file put the below like this in the Section module:

Load "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so"

Thats of course if it didnt get deleted somehow.

Cheers

[#chowned]

Did you do anything like use envy or anything change to make that happen?

[unisol1]

no. the only thing i did after it wouldnt load the desktop was from single-user mode ,edit xorg.conf and change the driver from nvidia to nv. the desktop then loaded.