Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI
On Wednesday 10 June 2015 22:13:21 Bret Busby wrote:
> 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).
Did you check that the driver you are using is suitable for Squeeze?
Lisi
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