Etch won't boot to desktop after install
Hi all
I decided to try out Debian Etch after using Suse for quite awhile but ran into problem right at the beginning. After setup and restart, the system won't boot into desktop. All it does is blink the screen 3 times and then put a text window with error inside. Now, I did my research and found an article that said the dri module could be the problem (NVidia gfx card) so I unchecked it via dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg but no luck. So I went and checked the log file and the end part of it says : Code:
... My gfx card is NVidia GeForce 8600 GTS - and it actually isn't listed in "compatibility" list in log file (in the long list of recognized gfx cards). So any of you Debian experts willing to help? :) |
This is a fairly new videocard and you'll need the latest nVidia drivers from the nVidia site: http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html To get you to a workable desktop (at least for now) reconfigure the xserver-xorg package as you did before, but select the vesa driver and a 800*600 resolution.
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Chose VESA and 800x600 as highest available resolution and now I can't even go to text mode anymore. What happens now is that when GDM should be starting, the screen goes blank and the system, well, dies on me :confused: |
Have you tried the beta driver?
http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree8...14.06-pkg1.run |
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I'm having the same problem, only with an Nvidia 9800 GTX. I tried to install the Nvidia driver, but it said I needed the development packages. (Which when I did this in Ubuntu, if I remember right, was "libc6".)
I am unable to download them, however, because I access the internet through the program "wvdial" - which was not installed, apparently. Any way to work around this? I have all three Debian install DVDs, plus the update DVD (all current as of about three weeks ago). However, the install program never asked me for any of the other disks, despite the fact that I selected all the software categories (other than "Laptop") when it asked me what I wanted to install. Ideas, anyone? |
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