Debian hates my soul
I am going to get debian working on my computer. I have it installed.
but when you boot, after grub it appears to start xwindows then the screen goes black... I went on the cd in recue mode and tried to install the driver but no luck. The weird thing is once I am in rescue mode and do a startx gnome comes up but I can't use my mouse or keyboard. When you boot up normally I hear a sound through my speakers and the keyboard leds are working so that tells me that the keyboard is working although my monitor isn't. there isn't a /etc/X11/xorg.conf file which is weird.. I have an integrated nvidia video card so i don't know if this is why I don't have an xorg.conf file or not. the "video card" is an nvidia 8400gs or something of that nature. any help would be awesome. (computer has been down for 2 days :-/ using ubuntu to web surf :-D ) |
Boot into rescue mode and try these instructions:
http://wiki.debian.org/Xorg?action=s...ect=ConfigureX http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers |
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Have you looked for errors in your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file? These are indicated by a leading (EE). That may be helpful in diagnosing your problem. ciao, jdk |
it sounds to me like the modules to your kernel aren't loading, but i'm inexperienced in that issue, so someone will have to verify that..
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Of course it would help if you mention what you have done to fix the problem, and what version of Debian you are running. |
Hmmm ....
(potential) Debian users have souls .... ??? Interesting metaphysical conundrum. |
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I did the walk threw bluedog posted on this site. http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=502 (it pretty much installs the driver from aptitude) ( aptitude install nvidia-glx ) I did a reinstall and set the priority for debconf to low so during the install it asked me if I wanted to use non-free software( and selected yes ) I tried to download the drivers off of nvidia's website. I had an error at first but it seems to have been using a wrong version of gcc or something of that nature I changed the variable and it seems to have gotten rid of that error however there is still an error at the end of the install... |
also on a side note does anyone know how to make it so that debian doesn't go into a gui when you boot up. it would be nice to not have to use the rescue cd :-/
Just thought That I would ask Thanks for the input. I will try the things bigrigdriver posted tonight. |
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ciao, jdk |
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Next, to boot into runlevel 3, simply put the number 3 (no quotes, no commas, nothing else) at the end of the line. For example (I use Arch, but it should be roughly the same - notice the 3 after vga-773): Code:
# (0) Arch Linux Code:
Remove your nvidia-glx drivers and download the ones from Nvidia's website: Do the rest here as root: Install Nvidia requirements: Code:
apt-get install gcc make linux-headers-`uname -r` build-essential Code:
/etc/init.d/gdm3 stop [Change gmd3 to kdm, or whatever else if you are using them) Now install the nvidia: Code:
cd /home/[Your username]/Downloads [You need to go to the directory which that file is in, so the path may change] |
I got the nvidia driver to install. I did some googling and added a few switches ( sh NVID* -k $(uname -r) )
at the end of the installation it asked if I wanted to edit the xserver config and I said yes. But it still ain't working. I have a defective video so I popped that in my computer and i could see that it could get to the desktop. But yeah, its still faulty :-( if I wasn't so cheap I probably would buy a new one... |
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