Re: X doesn't start
Jan Brosius <jan.brosius@skynet.be>:
> Tim Channon wrote:
> > Jan Brosius wrote:
> >
> > I sent you are private reply pointing to the likely solution which is
> > that there is a script someone has done which will configure xorg for
> > nvidia on a difficult machine. Someone specifically mentions it fixing
> > an Acer laptop in the same 99xx series.
>
> Do you mean that one is working on it? I hope then to be able to install
> the next release of debian on my laptop
What are you talking about?!? He said it *fixes* your problem with
that series of laptop. No need to wait for Debian releases.
I would have said:
As root:
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
and choose the "nv" driver. That won't get you nVidia features, but
it would get you X.
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