X stopped working after upgrade to Xorg-7.4

[Joseph Olatt]

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 03:54:44PM -0600, Robert Noland wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 13:09 -0800, Joseph Olatt wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have a system with the following graphics card:
> > 
> > Nvidia GeForce 7100 / nForce 620i
> > 
> > It was never supported by Xorg's nv driver. However, without an 
> > /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, I could run "startx" and X would start
> > up and I was able to run twm. I suspect it was using the vesa
> > driver or fbdev.
> > 
> > After upgrading to Xorg-7.4, that stopped working.
> > 
> > Now if I try to run "startx" *without* /etc/X11/xorg.conf, 
> > I get the following:
> > http://www.eskimo.com/~joji/x11/startx_no_xorg_conf.log
> > 
> > The corresponding Xorg.0.log is:
> > http://www.eskimo.com/~joji/x11/Xorg.0.log_no_xorg_conf
> > 
> > 
> > If I try "X -configure", I get:
> > http://www.eskimo.com/~joji/x11/X_-configure.log
> > 
> > When I try to run "startx", I get the following:
> > http://www.eskimo.com/~joji/x11/startx_xorg_conf.log
> > 
> > The corresponding Xorg.0.log is:
> > http://www.eskimo.com/~joji/x11/startx_xorg_conf.log
> > 
> > The xorg.conf file is:
> > http://www.eskimo.com/~joji/x11/xorg.conf
> 
> Ok, something has gone horribly wrong in the probe phase.  Get rid of
> all of the Screen lines from ServerLayout except for the entry for
> Screen 0.  Get rid of all of the Monitor sections except for Monitor 0.
> Get rid of all of the Device sections except for the one that has Card0.
> And finally, get rid of all of the Screen sections except for Screen0.
> See what that does...
> 
> robert.
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Hello Robert,

I've removed everything except the lines for Screen 0. Running startx
gave the following:
http://www.eskimo.com/~joji/x11/startx_1.log

Corresponding Xorg.0.log is:
http://www.eskimo.com/~joji/x11/Xorg.0.log_1

xorg.conf is:
http://www.eskimo.com/~joji/x11/xorg.conf_1

thoughts?

Thanks for your willingness to provide suggestions...

regards,
joseph