I am also having the problem described by Kid. I followed the procedure listed except I installed the Dharma 3 Beta. The boot process worked correctly at first but as my Aspire 1600 is connected to a 46" LCD via HDMI, I elected to follow the NVIDIA update steps to get digital audio.
Once that was complete though I can only boot the the terminal and when trying "startx" I get the following:
X.Org X Server 1.7.6
Release Date: 2010-03-17
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.24-27-server i686 Ubuntu
Current Operating System: Linux XBMCLive 2.6.32-25-generic #44-Ubuntu SMP Fri Sep 17 20:26:08 UTC 2010 i686
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-25-generic root=UUID=77c8b89d-70f5-4a0d-8227-1af5765780e1 ro quiet splash xbmc=autostart,nodiskmount,setvolume loglevel=0 video=vesafb
Build Date: 21 July 2010 12:47:34PM
xorg-server 2:1.7.6-2ubuntu7.3 (For technical support please see
http://www.ubuntu.com/support)
Current version of pixman: 0.16.4
Before reporting problems, check
http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Mon Nov 1 18:07:28 2010
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(==) Using config directory: "/usr/lib/X11/xorg.conf.d"
Error: API mismatch: the NVIDIA kernel module has version 195.36.24,
but this NVIDIA driver component has version 256.53. Please make
sure that the kernel module and all NVIDIA driver components
have the same version.
(EE) Nov 01 18:07:29 NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module. Please see the
(EE) Nov 01 18:07:29 NVIDIA(0): system's kernel log for additional error messages and
(EE) Nov 01 18:07:29 NVIDIA(0): consult the NVIDIA README for details.
(EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting ***
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
Fatal server error:
no screens found
Trying to re-install the update also fails, btw.
After reading this post beginning to end I'm not sure I picked up on the solution to this problem. I would like to have the digital audio working and as originally installed (without the NVIDIA update), any video files cannot start the audio stream it seems.
Can anyone offer some assistance?