the computer looks like it has crashed. Doesn't respond to any commands. I have to manually turn off the power supply in order to shut it down. And to say that I followed to the letter the tutorial on this page:
http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian- ... ation.html
Everything went well (at least it looked so), I received only positive replies except at the end a comment like "nvidia has tainted the kernel" or something like that.
I then started the xserver (# startx) and everything went black.
Any suggestions as to why or to what I have done wrong? How can I at least go back to command-line? When rebooted, the x server starts automatically, and from there onwards....BLACK.
Thanks for any help you can give me.
I have been around this installation for 4 days now. There wasn't a single piece of hardware in my computer that worked with Debian (except the NIC). I have had to configure EVERYTHING, starting from the SATA drive! I am exhausted. If anyone can help, good, otherwise I'll just overwrite Debian with SuSE.
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Nvidia drivers installed! Now I have a black screen and...
Do <ctrl><alt><F2> to get to a console prompt, and log in as root.
Do uname -a to determine what kernel image your computer is using. Example: Linux <computer_name> 2.6.11-1-k7 #1 <date> ...
Reinstall your kernel with the command apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.11-1-k7 --reinstall
Do dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 and select the nv driver.
Reboot.
Do uname -a to determine what kernel image your computer is using. Example: Linux <computer_name> 2.6.11-1-k7 #1 <date> ...
Reinstall your kernel with the command apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.11-1-k7 --reinstall
Do dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 and select the nv driver.
Reboot.