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Re: Get display back?



Jeff wrote:
I am a new Debian user . Had Etch installed and tried to install the Nvidia driver without success. Now i cannot get the display working when i boot Etch ! Just a blank screen? Can someone tell me how to get the display back from boot up please?

Try Ctrl-Alt-F1 to switch to Virtual Terminal 1 (VT1); if that works, you can make repairs from there. (I won't go into the repair process; let us know if you can get to this point.)

If that doesn't work, does Crlt-Alt-Backspace do anything for you?

If neither of those get you to a text-based VT, you'll have to boot into a "safer" mode; there are several ways to do this, but I'll wait to see if one of the above methods gets you farther along.

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Kent




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