Hi, I installed Slitaz 5 RC3 in a Dell Inspiron with nVidia Geforce Go 7950 GT card in it.
Previously, I had Slitaz 4 running on the same machine with nVidia non-free module and compiz without any problems.
When first installed it automatically installed the nouveau driver and X started without any issues. Downloaded nVidia non-free driver installed it and changed 60-Device.conf to nvidia as the driver. Now when I boot slim login screen does not come up. /var/log/Xorg.0.log shows following conditions
16.516] compiled for 1.12.4, module version = 1.13.0
[ 16.516] Module class: X.Org Server Extension
[ 16.516] ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 6.0
[ 16.516] (II) Loading extension RECORD
[ 16.516] (II) LoadModule: "dri2"
[ 16.516] (II) Loading /usr/lib/X11/modules/extensions/libdri2.so
[ 16.527] (II) Module dri2: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 16.527] compiled for 1.12.4, module version = 1.2.0
[ 16.527] ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 6.0
[ 16.527] (II) Loading extension DRI2
[ 16.527] (II) LoadModule: "extmod"
[ 16.527] (II) Loading /usr/lib/X11/modules/extensions/libextmod.so
[ 16.536] (II) Module extmod: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 16.536] compiled for 1.12.4, module version = 1.0.0
[ 16.536] Module class: X.Org Server Extension
[ 16.536] ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 6.0
[ 16.536] (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
[ 16.536] (II) Loading extension XFree86-VidModeExtension
[ 16.536] (II) Loading extension XFree86-DGA
[ 16.537] (II) Loading extension DPMS
[ 16.537] (II) Loading extension XVideo
[ 16.537] (II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation
[ 16.537] (II) Loading extension X-Resource
[ 16.537] (II) LoadModule: "dbe"
[ 16.537] (II) Loading /usr/lib/X11/modules/extensions/libdbe.so
[ 16.538] (II) Module dbe: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 16.538] compiled for 1.12.4, module version = 1.0.0
[ 16.538] Module class: X.Org Server Extension
[ 16.538] ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 6.0
[ 16.538] (II) Loading extension DOUBLE-BUFFER
[ 16.538] (II) LoadModule: "dri"
[ 16.538] (II) Loading /usr/l 16.516] compiled for 1.12.4, module version = 1.13.0
[ 16.516] Module class: X.Org Server Extension
[ 16.516] ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 6.0
[ 16.516] (II) Loading extension RECORD
[ 16.516] (II) LoadModule: "dri2"
[ 16.516] (II) Loading /usr/lib/X11/modules/extensions/libdri2.so
[ 16.527] (II) Module dri2: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 16.527] compiled for 1.12.4, module version = 1.2.0
[ 16.527] ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 6.0
[ 16.527] (II) Loading extension DRI2
[ 16.527] (II) LoadModule: "extmod"
[ 16.527] (II) Loading /usr/lib/X11/modules/extensions/libextmod.so
[ 16.536] (II) Module extmod: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 16.536] compiled for 1.12.4, module version = 1.0.0
[ 16.536] Module class: X.Org Server Extension
[ 16.536] ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 6.0
[ 16.536] (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
[ 16.536] (II) Loading extension XFree86-VidModeExtension
[ 16.536] (II) Loading extension XFree86-DGA
[ 16.537] (II) Loading extension DPMS
[ 16.537] (II) Loading extension XVideo
[ 16.537] (II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation
[ 16.537] (II) Loading extension X-Resource
[ 16.537] (II) LoadModule: "dbe"
[ 16.537] (II) Loading /usr/lib/X11/modules/extensions/libdbe.so
[ 16.538] (II) Module dbe: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 16.538] compiled for 1.12.4, module version = 1.0.0
[ 16.538] Module class: X.Org Server Extension
[ 16.538] ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 6.0
[ 16.538] (II) Loading extension DOUBLE-BUFFER
[ 16.538] (II) LoadModule: "dri"
[ 16.538] (II) Loading /usr/lib/X11/modules/extensions/libdri.so
[ 16.551] (II) Module dri: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 16.551] compiled for 1.12.4, module version = 1.0.0
[ 16.551] ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 6.0
[ 16.551] (II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI
[ 16.551] (II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
[ 16.560] (II) Loading /usr/lib/X11/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so
[ 16.628] (II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
[ 16.628] compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
[ 16.628] Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[ 16.628] ================ WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING ================
[ 16.628] This server has a video driver ABI version of 12.1 that is not
supported by this NVIDIA driver. Please check
http://www.nvidia.com/ for driver updates or downgrade to an X
server with a supported driver ABI.
[ 16.628] =================================================================
[ 16.657] (II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver 173.14.31 Sun Jul 17 22:20:25 PDT 2011
[ 16.657] (II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs
[ 16.657] (++) using VT number 7
[ 16.661] (II) Loading sub module "fb"
[ 16.661] (II) LoadModule: "fb"[ 16.657] (II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver 173.14.31 Sun Jul 17 22:20:25 PDT 2011
[ 16.657] (II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs
[ 16.657] (++) using VT number 7
[ 16.661] (II) Loading sub module "fb"
[ 16.661] (II) LoadModule: "fb"
[ 16.661] (II) Loading /usr/lib/X11/modules/libfb.so
[ 16.663] (II) Module fb: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 16.663] compiled for 1.12.4, module version = 1.0.0
[ 16.663] ABI class: X.Org ANSI C Emulation, version 0.4
[ 16.663] (II) Loading sub module "wfb"
[ 16.663] (II) LoadModule: "wfb"
[ 16.663] (II) Loading /usr/lib/X11/modules/libwfb.so
[ 16.665] (II) Module wfb: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 16.665] compiled for 1.12.4, module version = 1.0.0
[ 16.665] ABI class: X.Org ANSI C Emulation, version 0.4
[ 16.665] (II) Loading sub module "ramdac"
[ 16.665] (II) LoadModule: "ramdac"
[ 16.665] (II) Module "ramdac" already built-in
[ 16.665] (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
[ 16.665] (II) UnloadSubModule: "wfb"
[ 16.665] (II) UnloadSubModule: "fb"
[ 16.665] (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
[ 16.665]
Fatal server error:
[ 16.665] no screens found
[ 16.665]
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
at http://www.slitaz.org/
for help.
Following up on the warning on driver ABI and the recommendation to downgrade the X server, I uninstalled xorg-server and installed xorg-server from Slitaz 4 repos.
When rebooted I was able to get to Slim logon screen but after that system just freezes presumably due to incompatible versions of software but it is clear that the version of xorg-server and nvidia non-free driver has some incompatibilities.
Any ideas on how to overcome this issue?
Many thanks.