On 11/06/2015, Nick T. <[email protected]> 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. <[email protected]> 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). -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .............. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts", written by Douglas Adams, published by Pan Books, 1992 .................................................... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CACX6j8O6T8yMFsfP0_gKeGzScMqvsnku0sj=uj1hp4qlwqu...@mail.gmail.com
