Help troubleshoot the nvidia driver and x display problem

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On Friday 17 December 2004 05:59, rain cip wrote:
>...
> kdm: Abnormal termination of greeter for display:0, code 1, singal 0
> (the line above repeats five times)
> init: getty repeating too quickly on port /dev/ttyv8, sleepinnng 30 secs

You see this kind of thing whenever kdm has trouble starting X, but what you 
really want is the underlying error message from xorg.  As a first step 
comment out the kdm line in /etc/ttys, and then start KDE (or whatever) with 
startx.  

One, fairly obvious, thing to do is autogenerate a new xorg.conf file, and 
make your nvidia changes on that.