Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI
On 06/10/2015 03:45 PM, Bret Busby wrote: On 11/06/2015, Nick T. n...@ncktsp.com wrote: Oops, forgot to cc in the mailing list. - Nick On 06/10/2015 09:19 PM, Nick T. wrote: Install build-essential it should contain all the packages necessary to install the driver. Also you might want to install dkms if you don't want to reinstall the driver after every kernel update. - Nick Thank you for that. The driver installation appears to have subsequently succeeded. However, after rebooting, the system still does not see the external monitor (using System - Preferences - Monitors), and I don't think that will work. Try using nvidia-settings. -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome. R.I.P. Dad. http://linuxcounter.net/user/44256.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5578ae98.8000...@gmail.com
Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI
On Wednesday 10 June 2015 22:13:21 Bret Busby wrote: On 11/06/2015, Nick T. n...@ncktsp.com 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. n...@ncktsp.com 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 CTRLALTF1 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). Did you check that the driver you are using is suitable for Squeeze? Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201506102239.49494.lisi.re...@gmail.com
Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI
On Wednesday 10 June 2015 23:01:06 Ric Moore wrote: On 06/10/2015 05:44 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 10 June 2015 22:39:36 Ric Moore wrote: On 06/10/2015 03:45 PM, Bret Busby wrote: On 11/06/2015, Nick T. n...@ncktsp.com wrote: Oops, forgot to cc in the mailing list. - Nick On 06/10/2015 09:19 PM, Nick T. wrote: Install build-essential it should contain all the packages necessary to install the driver. Also you might want to install dkms if you don't want to reinstall the driver after every kernel update. - Nick Thank you for that. The driver installation appears to have subsequently succeeded. However, after rebooting, the system still does not see the external monitor (using System - Preferences - Monitors), and I don't think that will work. Try using nvidia-settings. I was obviously very lucky. I did what it said on the NVidia site and the thing Just Worked. ;-) You ran nvidia-xconfig then? Ric Sorry, I don't remember. It was over two years ago and I'm not getting any younger. (Who is, pray??) I just did what I was told. I do sometimes. ;-) And it worked. Lisi Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201506102306.07638.lisi.re...@gmail.com
Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI
On 11/06/2015, Ric Moore wayward4...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/10/2015 03:45 PM, Bret Busby wrote: On 11/06/2015, Nick T. n...@ncktsp.com wrote: Oops, forgot to cc in the mailing list. - Nick On 06/10/2015 09:19 PM, Nick T. wrote: Install build-essential it should contain all the packages necessary to install the driver. Also you might want to install dkms if you don't want to reinstall the driver after every kernel update. - Nick Thank you for that. The driver installation appears to have subsequently succeeded. However, after rebooting, the system still does not see the external monitor (using System - Preferences - Monitors), and I don't think that will work. Try using nvidia-settings. As I had said, xwindows now no longer works on the system. What do I need to do, at the command line level, to get xwindows operable on the system? In the circumstances, it appears to be a congiuration or settings issue. Or, despite the information on the nvidia web site, perhaps the driver simply does not work with Debian 6. I note that the gcc version issues showed that the gcc version applicable to the driver, appeared to be an earlier version (4.3, I think) than the installed version when I installed gcc (4.4, I think) (but the discrepancy appeared to have been overcome in the procedure that I followed), indicating (I believe) that Debian 6 should not be a version to early for thenvidia driver. -- 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 debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/cacx6j8pem9e2yxenqzv6qwwetwpd9moqogaq6oeovmsqogi...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI
On 06/10/2015 06:06 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 10 June 2015 23:01:06 Ric Moore wrote: On 06/10/2015 05:44 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 10 June 2015 22:39:36 Ric Moore wrote: On 06/10/2015 03:45 PM, Bret Busby wrote: On 11/06/2015, Nick T. n...@ncktsp.com wrote: Oops, forgot to cc in the mailing list. - Nick On 06/10/2015 09:19 PM, Nick T. wrote: Install build-essential it should contain all the packages necessary to install the driver. Also you might want to install dkms if you don't want to reinstall the driver after every kernel update. - Nick Thank you for that. The driver installation appears to have subsequently succeeded. However, after rebooting, the system still does not see the external monitor (using System - Preferences - Monitors), and I don't think that will work. Try using nvidia-settings. I was obviously very lucky. I did what it said on the NVidia site and the thing Just Worked. ;-) You ran nvidia-xconfig then? Ric Sorry, I don't remember. It was over two years ago and I'm not getting any younger. (Who is, pray??) I just did what I was told. I do sometimes. ;-) And it worked. Life is GOOD when a good plan comes together. :) Ric -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome. R.I.P. Dad. http://linuxcounter.net/user/44256.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5578fbe3.8020...@gmail.com
