This returned a message to the effect that it had failed to find the Xconfig file and could not write to /etc/X11 and referred me to the log copied below.. I did not remove the nouveau files as the previous step had failed. Now of course I have no X windows at all. There was no apparent reason for the issue in the first place i.e. no changes to the system. However I did install Wine a couple of days ago (which seems to work) and noticed that Synaptic removed a file in the installation. The only apparent new consequence was that despite Xfce configuration choices about helper applications Firefox has been replaced by Konqueror as the default browser.
I could of course reinstall and loose the confuguration and add ons and updates that have taken place in the couple of weeks I have been using Mint Xfce Debian version ... but I'd rather not. I can access configuration files from outside the Mint partition to make changes if needed from the Linux OS I am writing this from. Any help would be greatly welcomed.
Colin.
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X.Org X Server 1.10.4
Release Date: 2011-08-19
[ 54.974] X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
[ 54.974] Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 i686 Debian
[ 54.974] Current Operating System: Linux starcross_pavilion 3.0.0-1-486 #1 Sun Jul 24 13:43:13 UTC 2011 i686
[ 54.974] Kernel command line: root=UUID=b576c426-76ea-4f4d-9fa4-69f7c22c94f5 ro quiet nomodeset nouveau.modeset=0
[ 54.974] Build Date: 24 August 2011 09:37:43AM
[ 54.974] xorg-server 2:1.10.4-1 (Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>)
[ 54.974] Current version of pixman: 0.20.2
[ 54.974] Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
[ 54.975] Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[ 54.975] (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sat Nov 5 12:13:53 2011
[ 54.976] (==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
[ 54.976] (==) No Layout section. Using the first Screen section.
[ 54.976] (==) No screen section available. Using defaults.
[ 54.976] (**) |-->Screen "Default Screen Section" (0)
[ 54.976] (**) | |-->Monitor "<default monitor>"
[ 54.977] (==) No monitor specified for screen "Default Screen Section".
Using a default monitor configuration.
[ 54.977] (==) Automatically adding devices
[ 54.977] (==) Automatically enabling devices
[ 54.977] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist.
[ 54.977] Entry deleted from font path.
[ 54.977] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/" does not exist.
[ 54.977] Entry deleted from font path.
[ 54.977] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/" does not exist.
[ 54.977] Entry deleted from font path.
[ 54.977] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi" does not exist.
[ 54.977] Entry deleted from font path.
[ 54.977] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi" does not exist.
[ 54.977] Entry deleted from font path.
[ 54.977] (==) FontPath set to:
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,
/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,
/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType,
built-ins
[ 54.977] (==) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
[ 54.977] (II) The server relies on udev to provide the list of input devices.
If no devices become available, reconfigure udev or disable AutoAddDevices.
[ 54.977] (II) Loader magic: 0x8231fa0
[ 54.977] (II) Module ABI versions:
[ 54.977] X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4
[ 54.977] X.Org Video Driver: 10.0
[ 54.977] X.Org XInput driver : 12.2
[ 54.977] X.Org Server Extension : 5.0
[ 54.979] (--) PCI:*(0:0:5:0) 10de:0241:103c:2a3a rev 162, Mem @ 0xfb000000/16777216, 0xe0000000/268435456, 0xfc000000/16777216, BIOS @ 0x????????/131072
[ 54.979] (II) Open ACPI successful (/var/run/acpid.socket)
[ 54.979] (II) LoadModule: "extmod"
[ 54.980] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libextmod.so
[ 54.980] (II) Module extmod: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 54.981] compiled for 1.10.4, module version = 1.0.0
[ 54.981] Module class: X.Org Server Extension
[ 54.981] ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 5.0
[ 54.981] (II) Loading extension SELinux
[ 54.981] (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
[ 54.981] (II) Loading extension XFree86-VidModeExtension
[ 54.981] (II) Loading extension XFree86-DGA
[ 54.981] (II) Loading extension DPMS
[ 54.981] (II) Loading extension XVideo
[ 54.981] (II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation
[ 54.981] (II) Loading extension X-Resource
[ 54.981] (II) LoadModule: "dbe"
[ 54.981] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libdbe.so
[ 54.981] (II) Module dbe: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 54.981] compiled for 1.10.4, module version = 1.0.0
[ 54.981] Module class: X.Org Server Extension
[ 54.981] ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 5.0
[ 54.981] (II) Loading extension DOUBLE-BUFFER
[ 54.981] (II) LoadModule: "glx"
[ 54.982] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
[ 55.029] (II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
[ 55.031] compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
[ 55.031] Module class: X.Org Server Extension
[ 55.031] (II) NVIDIA GLX Module 280.13 Wed Jul 27 17:14:51 PDT 2011
[ 55.031] (II) Loading extension GLX
[ 55.031] (II) LoadModule: "record"
[ 55.032] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/librecord.so
[ 55.032] (II) Module record: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 55.032] compiled for 1.10.4, module version = 1.13.0
[ 55.032] Module class: X.Org Server Extension
[ 55.032] ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 5.0
[ 55.032] (II) Loading extension RECORD
[ 55.032] (II) LoadModule: "dri"
[ 55.032] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libdri.so
[ 55.033] (II) Module dri: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 55.033] compiled for 1.10.4, module version = 1.0.0
[ 55.033] ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 5.0
[ 55.033] (II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI
[ 55.033] (II) LoadModule: "dri2"
[ 55.033] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libdri2.so
[ 55.033] (II) Module dri2: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 55.033] compiled for 1.10.4, module version = 1.2.0
[ 55.034] ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 5.0
[ 55.034] (II) Loading extension DRI2
[ 55.034] (==) Matched nouveau as autoconfigured driver 0
[ 55.034] (==) Matched nv as autoconfigured driver 1
[ 55.034] (==) Matched vesa as autoconfigured driver 2
[ 55.034] (==) Matched fbdev as autoconfigured driver 3
[ 55.034] (==) Assigned the driver to the xf86ConfigLayout
[ 55.034] (II) LoadModule: "nouveau"
[ 55.034] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nouveau_drv.so
[ 55.034] (II) Module nouveau: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 55.034] compiled for 1.10.1, module version = 0.0.16
[ 55.034] Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[ 55.034] ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 10.0
[ 55.034] (II) LoadModule: "nv"
[ 55.035] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module nv
[ 55.035] (II) UnloadModule: "nv"
[ 55.036] (II) Unloading nv
[ 55.036] (EE) Failed to load module "nv" (module does not exist, 0)
[ 55.036] (II) LoadModule: "vesa"
[ 55.036] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/vesa_drv.so
[ 55.036] (II) Module vesa: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 55.036] compiled for 1.10.2, module version = 2.3.0
[ 55.036] Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[ 55.036] ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 10.0
[ 55.036] (II) LoadModule: "fbdev"
[ 55.036] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fbdev_drv.so
[ 55.037] (II) Module fbdev: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 55.037] compiled for 1.10.1, module version = 0.4.2
[ 55.037] ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 10.0
[ 55.037] (II) NOUVEAU driver Date: Thu Mar 24 02:13:12 2011 +1000
[ 55.037] (II) NOUVEAU driver for NVIDIA chipset families :
[ 55.037] RIVA TNT (NV04)
[ 55.037] RIVA TNT2 (NV05)
[ 55.037] GeForce 256 (NV10)
[ 55.037] GeForce 2 (NV11, NV15)
[ 55.037] GeForce 4MX (NV17, NV18)
[ 55.037] GeForce 3 (NV20)
[ 55.037] GeForce 4Ti (NV25, NV28)
[ 55.037] GeForce FX (NV3x)
[ 55.037] GeForce 6 (NV4x)
[ 55.037] GeForce 7 (G7x)
[ 55.037] GeForce 8 (G8x)
[ 55.037] GeForce GTX 200 (NVA0)
[ 55.037] GeForce GTX 400 (NVC0)
[ 55.037] (II) VESA: driver for VESA chipsets: vesa
[ 55.037] (II) FBDEV: driver for framebuffer: fbdev
[ 55.037] (--) using VT number 7
[ 55.052] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
[ 55.066] drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci:0000:00:05.0
[ 55.066] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
[ 55.070] drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1
[ 55.070] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card1
[ 55.075] drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1
[ 55.075] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card2
[ 55.080] drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1
[ 55.080] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card3
[ 55.084] drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1
[ 55.084] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card4
[ 55.088] drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1
[ 55.088] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card5
[ 55.093] drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1
[ 55.093] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card6
[ 55.097] drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1
[ 55.097] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card7
[ 55.101] drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1
[ 55.101] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card8
[ 55.106] drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1
[ 55.106] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card9
[ 55.110] drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1
[ 55.110] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card10
[ 55.114] drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1
[ 55.115] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card11
[ 55.119] drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1
[ 55.119] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card12
[ 55.123] drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1
[ 55.123] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card13
[ 55.128] drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1
[ 55.128] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card14
[ 55.132] drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1
[ 55.132] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card15
[ 55.136] drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1
[ 55.136] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
[ 55.145] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
[ 55.150] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card1
[ 55.154] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card2
[ 55.158] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card3
[ 55.163] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card4
[ 55.167] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card5
[ 55.172] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card6
[ 55.176] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card7
[ 55.180] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card8
[ 55.185] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card9
[ 55.189] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card10
[ 55.193] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card11
[ 55.198] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card12
[ 55.202] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card13
[ 55.206] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card14
[ 55.211] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card15
[ 55.215] (EE) [drm] failed to open device
[ 55.215] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/vesa_drv.so
[ 55.215] vesa: Ignoring device with a bound kernel driver
[ 55.215] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for vesa
[ 55.215] (II) Loading sub module "fbdevhw"
[ 55.215] (II) LoadModule: "fbdevhw"
[ 55.216] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libfbdevhw.so
[ 55.216] (II) Module fbdevhw: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 55.216] compiled for 1.10.4, module version = 0.0.2
[ 55.216] ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 10.0
[ 55.216] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fbdev_drv.so
[ 55.216] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libfbdevhw.so
[ 55.216] (EE) open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory
[ 55.216] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for fbdev
[ 55.216] (II) UnloadModule: "vesa"
[ 55.216] (II) Unloading vesa
[ 55.216] (II) UnloadModule: "fbdev"
[ 55.216] (II) Unloading fbdev
[ 55.216] (II) UnloadModule: "fbdevhw"
[ 55.216] (II) Unloading fbdevhw
[ 55.217] (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
[ 55.217]
Fatal server error:
[ 55.217] no screens found
[ 55.217]
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
at http://wiki.x.org
for help.
[ 55.217] Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
[ 55.217]