OT: Display not found

[Todd And Margo Chester]

Hi All,

This is off topic, not an Xfce problem, so I do ask your indulgence.
I am posting here because you are a bunch of smart guys in
this subject and may be able to help me.

For the life of me, I can not get epel's kmod-nvidia drivers to work.
I get "display not found".  I have posted the error logs and details
of my system over on (it is pretty long, so I did not want to duplicate
it here):

http://scientificlinuxforum.org/index.php?act=ST&f=5&t=1477&st=0...

This has been driving me crazy for several months.  I am getting
a bit desperate.

I appreciate you guys' help,
-T

[Ken Dreyer]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 11:22 PM, Todd And Margo Chester
 wrote:
> For the life of me, I can not get epel's kmod-nvidia drivers to work.
> I get "display not found".  I have posted the error logs and details
> of my system over on (it is pretty long, so I did not want to duplicate
> it here):
>
> http://scientificlinuxforum.org/index.php?act=ST&f=5&t=1477&st=0...

Hi Todd,

ELRepo is a separate project from EPEL. These NVidia packages have
ELRepo in the name, so they come from ELRepo. You might try the ELRepo
mailing lists. http://lists.elrepo.org/mailman/listinfo/elrepo

- Ken

[Todd And Margo Chester]

On 03/22/2012 07:18 AM, Ken Dreyer wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 11:22 PM, Todd And Margo Chester
>   wrote:
> > For the life of me, I can not get epel's kmod-nvidia drivers to work.
> > I get "display not found".  I have posted the error logs and details
> > of my system over on (it is pretty long, so I did not want to duplicate
> > it here):
> >
> > http://scientificlinuxforum.org/index.php?act=ST&f=5&t=1477&st=0...
>
> Hi Todd,
>
> ELRepo is a separate project from EPEL. These NVidia packages have
> ELRepo in the name, so they come from ELRepo. You might try the ELRepo
> mailing lists. http://lists.elrepo.org/mailman/listinfo/elrepo
> Ken

Thank you Ken.  Your tip lead me to someone who knew how to help.

Solved:

Phil over on the ELRepo mailing list helped me solve this.

The post install scripts were not recreating /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

Solution:

AFTER installing the drivers (they will rename xorg.conf on you), run:

ln -s /etc/X11/XF86Config /etc/X11/xorg.conf

and reboot.

Thanks to all that helped me on this!

-T