Re: Screen goes black after install
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 10:25:58AM -0500, Mark Allums wrote:
> On 06/17/2015 10:12 AM, Dwijesh Gajadur wrote:
> >Hello everyone.
> >
> >I recently bought and installed a PCI ATI Rage 128 Video card on my pc.
> >I then installed Debian Jessie on the pc.
> >After booting the following lines appear:
> >
> >Loading, Please wait...
> >fsck from util-linux 2.25.2
> >/dev/sda5: clean, 48855/7553024 files, 821115/38202368 blocks
> >_
> >
A really stupid question: does the motherboard also have a video on board -
if so, check which one is the default in BIOS. [I have, in the past, had
to boot without a video card using the inbuilt VGA, tell it to default to
PCI on reboot then switch off, insert the card and hope :) ]
> >And then the screen goes black..nothing appears.
> >I have tested the video card on windows and it works well.
> >
> >I also want to run debian on non-graphical mode..I did not install any
> >desktop environment.I want to run it on command line as a server.
>
Install the absolute bare minimum: use a Debian expert install to allow you
to answer all questions in detail, install only the base system, perhaps
with the SSH server added.
That will install a small text mode system - 280 packages or so - and
should allow you to build on that by adding packages slowly.
Hope this helps a little - logs or more detail will help debug problems
All the best,
AndyC
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