Debian 4.0 with gnome on compaq presario V6301AU

hallows1 · 04-08-2008, 01:57 AM

Im trying to install debian etch with a gnome desktop on my presario v6301au laptop, each time i try installing it with gnome and the vesa driver, however when i go to boot up with the gdm the screen is white, the laptop has an amd turion x2 64bit processor in it. and i am using the amd64 version of debian. any ideas of what else i can do to get either gnome or kde installed on it

pljvaldez · 04-08-2008, 07:01 PM

What video card does it have? Maybe the vendor's video driver would work better.

hallows1 · 04-10-2008, 06:35 AM

its an nvidia graphics card, and the driver for this specific card does not come pre loaded on debian or with gnome

pljvaldez · 04-10-2008, 12:17 PM

You can get to a shell with CTRL+Alt+F1. From there, you can edit your /etc/apt/sources.list and make sure you have the contrib and non-free repositories. Then just install and use module-assistant to build the drivers for you. Here's a howto.