From: Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: Mon, November 29, 2010 1:17:01
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Subject: Re: Debian (2.6.35) on Mac Mini (late-2010)
On Lu, 29 nov 10, 08:05:41, w f wrote:
>
> I waited 10 minutes and successfully SSH'd in from a different machine.
> So ... it's up and running. Now I suspect it's video hardware issues.
> After checking /etc/intttab, the default runlevel is 2.
> I removed the S04gdm3 symlink from /etc/rc2.d then rebooted; gdm is no longer
> running but the console display is still black.
>
> I have no interest in running a GUI on the machine; it'll be nothing but a
> headless server.
> I'm sooooo close.
Try disabling KMS. As far as I can tell from a quick web search you have
to pass <driver>.modeset=0 to the kernel, I'm sure others will correct
me if I'm wrong.
Regards,
Andrei
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