Re: X doesn't start after installing debian

2008-03-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 12:49:29AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 01:24:04PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: After you installed nvidia-glx, did you run m-a to build the necessary kernel modules like the instructions tell you? Huh? AFAIK in stable you have prebuild

Re: X doesn't start after installing debian

2008-03-14 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 11:49:13AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 12:49:29AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 01:24:04PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: After you installed nvidia-glx, did you run m-a to build the necessary kernel modules

X doesn't start after installing debian

2008-03-13 Thread Jan Brosius
Hello, I installed debian 4.0 r3 amd64 on my laptop an Acer Aspire 9920. The graphic card is Nvidia 8600M. The installation went well until after the reboot. Then the X server didn't start. I installed then with apt the debian package nvidia-glx. But when I then start X I get a blank screen

Re: X doesn't start after installing debian

2008-03-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/13/08 01:23, Jan Brosius wrote: Hello, I installed debian 4.0 r3 amd64 on my laptop an Acer Aspire 9920. The graphic card is Nvidia 8600M. The installation went well until after the reboot. Then the X server didn't start. I installed

Re: X doesn't start after installing debian

2008-03-13 Thread Jochen Schulz
Jan Brosius: I installed debian 4.0 r3 amd64 on my laptop an Acer Aspire 9920. The graphic card is Nvidia 8600M. The installation went well until after the reboot. Then the X server didn't start. I installed then with apt the debian package nvidia-glx. But when I then start X I get a

Re: X doesn't start after installing debian

2008-03-13 Thread Jochen Schulz
Ron Johnson: On 03/13/08 01:23, Jan Brosius wrote: I there nothing I can do to install debian on my laptop. Sure. People do it all the time. People install Debian on his laptop all the time? :) Since you can't get in via a normal boot, I suggest that you use a LiveCD and disable

Re: X doesn't start after installing debian

2008-03-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/13/08 15:02, Jochen Schulz wrote: Ron Johnson: On 03/13/08 01:23, Jan Brosius wrote: I there nothing I can do to install debian on my laptop. Sure. People do it all the time. People install Debian on his laptop all the time? :) Sure.

Re: X doesn't start after installing debian

2008-03-13 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday 12 March 2008 11:23:41 pm Jan Brosius wrote: I installed debian 4.0 r3 amd64 on my laptop an Acer Aspire 9920. The graphic card is Nvidia 8600M. The installation went well until after the reboot. Then the X server didn't start. I installed then with apt the debian package

Re: X doesn't start after installing debian

2008-03-13 Thread Johannes Rohr
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 03/13/08 01:23, Jan Brosius wrote: I installed debian 4.0 r3 amd64 on my laptop an Acer Aspire 9920. The graphic card is Nvidia 8600M. The installation went well until after the reboot. Then the X server didn't start. I installed then with apt the

Re: X doesn't start after installing debian

2008-03-13 Thread Jochen Schulz
Ron Johnson: On 03/13/08 15:02, Jochen Schulz wrote: At least with gdm, if X doesn't come up after three attempts, it offers you to view the X log file and then drops you into console login. Well that's interesting. Does it mean that you've got to reboot 3 times? (Not that that's bad,

Re: X doesn't start after installing debian

2008-03-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 01:24:04PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: After you installed nvidia-glx, did you run m-a to build the necessary kernel modules like the instructions tell you? Huh? AFAIK in stable you have prebuild module packages. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you