No!!!

You failed to see the recommendation (for repairing these exact errors) at the bottom of the on the last LINK.

These linked URL's are all part of the solution process, we don't just drop them on for giggles.

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> Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:23:50 -0700
> From: danceswithcrows@usa.net
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: How to recover X display?
> 
> From: Josef Lowder <joe@actionline.com>
> > Perhaps I'll just have to reinstall and risk losing my data as
> > I don't know a way to get it copied off.
> 
> USB drive, shirley?
> 
> [kernel modules and GRUB conf, not the problem]
> >> We might logically research the exact Xorg errors for these, spoze?
> >> 3) Research our error for known solutions:
> >> module ABI major version (1) doesn't match server's version (2)
> >> failed to load module "v41" (module requirement mismatch,0)
> > ("v41" above should have been "v4l"
> 
> This is an X problem IIRC.  The module being referred to is the X
> module, not a kernel module.  Did X get upgraded at some point?
> The thing that's messed up is /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/v4l_drv.*
> AFAICT.  If you have any reference to v4l in your xorg.conf , then
> edit that file and comment that line out.  Your webcam and/or TV
> tuner will stop being able to use XV, but you'll get X back.  Also,
> 
> grep Driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> lspci | grep VGA
> 
> ...will tell you which X module you're using and which graphics
> card you have.  In fact, you should take your xorg.conf and put
> it on your website somewhere, then follow up with a URL here.
> 
> > The problem seems to pertain mainly if not exclusively to the X server.
> > I tried running '/usr/sbin/XFdrake' and it seems to show that everything
> > is set correctly.
> 
> XFdrake... something Mandrake-specific?  Gah, most of these tools are
> rather poorly debugged.
> 
> > Should I try to remove all files on the system pertaining to virtualbox?
> 
> This shouldn't have any effect on anything, but sure, try your distro's
> equivalent of "yum remove virtualbox".  FWIW, I installed virtualbox
> on my Thinkpad T42p a while back, and never had any problems with it
> horking up suspend-to-RAM or doing anything weird to X.  Then again,
> I'm using Gentoo, and YDistroMV.  HTH anyway,
> 
> -- 
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