Re: HP DV9540 laptop AMD64 with nVidia G8400M graphic card will not start in X mode
Am Freitag 24 August 2007 schrieb Niels Larsen:
> On Friday 24 August 2007 02:35:29 Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>
> At last I installed a driver direct from nvidia's site, following their
> instructions:
>
> http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_amd64_100.14.11.html
>
> It worked, and I got kde up and running, but then I tried as normal user,
> and got segmentation error.
> Then I tried again as root and got the same error.
>
> Now I an installing a 32 bit debian, and leaving this list for now.
>
> I cannot get neither a K/ubuntu 64 -or 32 bits installed, it installs and
> then I get black screen, so it seemt as it only is debian which will
> install on my new laptop.
>
> Can see, that I get the same X problem just now on 32 bits debian, so I
> will have to install a driver from nvidia, and then see.
>
> Thanks for your help so far :-) (I learned a lot)
N o reason for this.
The normal user must be in group ""nvidia". The Debian package does this
automatically, the NVidia-installer NOT.
Regards
Hans
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