On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 07:30:30 -0700, Dean Allen Provins, P. Geoph. wrote: > My nVidia GeForce 6600 GT card started to act up, so I purchased an > inexpensive MSI N210 card (which uses the 210 nVidia chipset). The > salesman said I'd be happier with it! > > Sadly, after the the initial boot sequence lines of text (in regular VGA > font) appear, the screen goes blank, and the disc stops working. It > appears that the "fine print" boot messages are lost at that time. Is it > possible the card does not support alternative VGA text formats?
(...) > Does anyone know why this happens, or what if any incompatibilities > there are between the current Debian release and this card? Any > suggestions for an alternative card would also be welcome (high "gaming" > performance is not needed). Before anything, I would try these steps: 1/ Rename any current "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" file (if any) and let Xorg to auto-configure the card. 2/ Boot with KMS disabled (append "nouveau.modeset=0" at boot's kernel line). There is also the closed source nvidia driver which usually works quite well but the first to do is making the system boots :-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.12.31.15.31...@gmail.com
