Hi,
I am moving from Fedora to Debian Sarge. I have an AMD Athlon 1800, with an Nvidia Gforce Ti 4200 64MB Graphics Card. I am installing from DVD.
The 1st bit of Installation goes fine, I reboot answer the questions and go for Desktop system, I configure the mouse etc. I am then asked about graphics. I pick NV, but have also tried VGA and VESA. I choose simple and pick 17" for my Phillips 107E monitor. When installation is finished, I just get a blank screen and nothing else (No prompt or anything, as if it has hung)! One of the last commands I see on screen before the black screen of doom is 'starting MTA' which seems to take about 30seconds.
I have a Belkin USB Keyboard and Mouse if this makes any difference?
My PC has two hard disks installed. 80GB for Windows XP, and 40GB for Linux. GRUB installs fine.
What am I doing wrong?
If you need any more information please let me know.
Thanks
Peter Jones
Bognor Regis
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No GUI after Installation of Sarge NVIDIA Graphics Card
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No GUI after Installation of Sarge NVIDIA Graphics Card
Last edited by jonesypeter on 2005-08-07 08:42, edited 2 times in total.
Log into the console and issue the following commands:
# dpkg-reconfigure xfree86-common
# dpkg-reconfigure xserver-common
# dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
When asked to configure the monitor, choose "medium" (I think that's what it's called) rather than "simple." "Medium" will let you pick the resolution and scan rate. I suspect that "simple" might be setting the resolution too high.
# dpkg-reconfigure xfree86-common
# dpkg-reconfigure xserver-common
# dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
When asked to configure the monitor, choose "medium" (I think that's what it's called) rather than "simple." "Medium" will let you pick the resolution and scan rate. I suspect that "simple" might be setting the resolution too high.