On Jan 22, 2008 12:02 PM, Jimmy Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Updates on the situation > I've shrunk Vista and left it as the first partition on the HD. After > looking around, I think that my laptop does not have a recovery > partition, which is rather strange. There is no Rescue and Recovery > ThinkVantage tool, or anything that says create recovery media at all. > > I went ahead and installed Debian anyway, using the netinstall CD, and > the install process went fine (no error messages that I could see). > However, xorg fails to start upon reboot. The xorg.conf is currently > using the nv driver. In the end of log are the following lines: > > (EE) No Devices detected. > > Fatal server error: > no screens found > > My graphics card is an nVidia Quadro NVS 140M, but lspci shows it as: > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0429 >
Sorry, found the answer shortly after posting the question. The nv driver doesn't support the nVidia Quadro NVS 140M video card I had. Switching to vesa solved the problem. Jimmy -- Registered Linux User #454138 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
