On Tue, 26 Oct 2010, Gilbert Sebenste wrote:

(EE) NV(0): No valid initial configuration found (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usuble configuration. Fatal server error: No screens found

System-config-display gives me:

Couldn't start X server on card 0 Couldn't start X server with old config, trying with a fresh configuration Couldn't start X server on card 0

(Shrug)

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Gilbert Sebenste wrote:

Hello everyone,

Maybe this doesn't make sense, but after I updated autofs yesterday and rebooted this morning, X windows won't go. It tries with the old configuration---doesn't work. It tries a fresh config and fails. I can't copy and paste, but it says screens found, but no usable configuration.

Couldn't start X server on card 0 Couldn't start X server with old config,

(EE) NV(0): No valid initial configuration found (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usuble configuration. Fatal server error: No screens found

Anyone have ideas?

My first thought is that you're mixing two issues: are you *sure* that you rebooted after the last kernel update? If not, I'd think it's looking at the wrong drive. This isn't, um, an nVidia card, is it?

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