Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

[Bret Busby <bret.busby@gmail.com>]

On 11/06/2015, Nick T. <nick@ncktsp.com> wrote:
> nomodeset goes inside the quotes derp :P
>
> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet nomodeset"
>
> - Nick
>
> On 06/10/2015 11:23 PM, Bret Busby wrote:
>> 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
>>>

Okay.

I did that, and then rebooted.

System -> Preferences -> Monitors still did not find the external monitor.

In that menu path, down from Monitors, was an entry,something like
nVidia xserver settings, so I selected that.

I got a dialogue box, with something like "You appear to be not using
the nVidia driver. Run nvidia-xconfig as root and restart xserver."

So, I ran nvidia-xconfig as root, and got a message something like "No
xserver.cfg file found. Creating new xserver.cfg file."

When that had completed, I rebooted the system.

Now, no xwindows operates on the system.

It goes through the text based boot reporting,  and then I get a black
screen, with the underscore flashing cursor, in the top left of the
screen.

After a few minutes, that is unchanged.

So, all I can do, is invoke <CTRL><ALT><F1> to go to a console, and
reboot into another operating system.

Now, I have to giveup again, for a few hours.

So near (?) and yet so far (now broken system - no xwindows operable).



-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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 you'll know what the answer means."
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 Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
 "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
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 written by Douglas Adams,
 published by Pan Books, 1992

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