Re: Screen goes black after install
On Wed, 17 Jun 2015 10:25:58 -0500
Mark Allums <maa@allums.xyz> 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
> > _
> >
> > 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.
>
> Press Ctrl-Alt-F1 and see if a login prompt appears. If it does, the
> machine is trying to start X and failing. I would try to get X
> running, but if you don't want X, you should probably check and see
> if a DM (such as lightdm) is installed, then go from there.
>
Press Ctrl-Alt-F2 (since systemd)
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