Mathieu Stumpf wrote: > I just installed debian testing on my desktop, and while I was > through the installation process with no problem, rebooting on my > fresh new system led me to a screen filled with artefacts > pixels. Rebooting the system and removing the "quite" option in > grub, I was able to see that the system was running fine, until X11 > was launched, after what the same chaos of pixels appeared. Indeed, > moving my mouse made me realized that the system was "functional" as > I saw a big square of random pixels was moving my gestures. This sounds very similar to Bug#696571 which is as yet unresolved. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=696571 You have an Intel based system while my report was about an AMD based system but I believe the problem may be the same. > I know that X11 can provide me a perfectly working environment, since I > already installed both archlinux and ubuntu on the same computer, > without encountering such a display problem. The root cause was the movement of firmware blobs out of the kernel sources. They are now only available in a nonfree bundle. But this is why the machine works out of the box with one kernel and firmware but then not with the next one. Try installing the linux-image-nonfree package to get the firmware blobs. I am thinking that has a good chance of solving your problem too. Your next question would be how? And as an answer I am not sure. I was able to install Squeeze first and then install the firmware and then upgrade. Also I have other methods that are harder to explain. Such as using preseeding. I would probably try booting to single user mode. However for me even that mode was unusable due to the display. I will think about how to do this and post an additional response later. Anyone on the list have suggestions for installing linux-image-nonfree without a usable display? Bob
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