Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI
On 11/06/2015, Nick T. <nick@ncktsp.com> wrote:
> Edit /etc/default/grub as root and append nomodeset to
> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT save exit and run update-grub as root.
>
> - Nick
>
> On 06/10/2015 10:55 PM, Bret Busby wrote:
>> On 11/06/2015, Nick T. <nick@ncktsp.com> wrote:
>>> Try adding nomodeset to the boot command if its not already there, I had
>>> to add that to make the driver work.
>>>
>>
>> This will probably make me seem even more stupid than I probably
>> already appear, but, how do I do that?
>>
>> Thank you in anticipation.
>>
After appending, the file is thus;
"
:~# cat /etc/default/grub
# If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update
# /boot/grub/grub.cfg.
GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet" nomodeset
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""
# Uncomment to enable BadRAM filtering, modify to suit your needs
# This works with Linux (no patch required) and with any kernel that obtains
# the memory map information from GRUB (GNU Mach, kernel of FreeBSD ...)
#GRUB_BADRAM="0x01234567,0xfefefefe,0x89abcdef,0xefefefef"
# Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc only)
#GRUB_TERMINAL=console
# The resolution used on graphical terminal
# note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE
# you can see them in real GRUB with the command `vbeinfo'
#GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480
# Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass "root=UUID=xxx" parameter to Linux
#GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true
# Uncomment to disable generation of recovery mode menu entries
#GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_RECOVERY="true"
# Uncomment to get a beep at grub start
#GRUB_INIT_TUNE="480 440 1"
"
And, in running thence, update-grub, I get this;
"
:~# update-grub
/etc/default/grub: 7: nomodeset: not found
"
Sould I have entered the string nomodeset, differently?
--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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