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Originally Posted by prasepretep
No luck
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
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Try the single user mode (second entry) when booting with grub and at the login prompt enter your root password now whether the the version of the nvidia driver you can get in Etch will support that card I don't really know you need to have non-free in the line that you use in your /etc/apt/sources.list like this.
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## Unstable Sources
deb http://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free
Changing the line to reflect yours in the file for Etch now you need to apt-get update or aptitude update depending on which you use then install the nvidia-kernel-common, nvidia-glx, nvidia-kernel-???? packages matching your running kernel then restart the machine after having changed the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file to use the nvidia driver. If the does not support the card then you can try with unstable with a line like this.
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## Unstable Sources
deb http://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian/ sid non-free
Commenting/removing the non-free from the etch line then updating again. Now you would install the module-assistant package and run as root
m-a prepare to download and link the kernel headers for your kernel then make sure that the build-essential package is installed and run the command
m-a a-i -i -t -f nvidia (you would have wanted to purge the nvidia packages from the etch before doing this) hopefully this will build/install a nvidia kernel driver for you kernel if successful then install the nvidia-glx and nvidia-settings packages and reboot/restart X.