Daniel Harris composed on 2019-07-11 15:39 (UTC+0100): > Need some help. My screen goes black if login to any other desktop > environment other than Gnome, even gnome-xorg only shows a black screen.
> I have a nvidia graphics card but i am only using standard debian, no > non-free repos. > Can anybody help as i have not played around with the os so not sure how to > debug this. Please share Xorg.0.log from an attempted Xorg session, either in /var/log/ or in ~/.local/share/xorg/. If this is a problem, at least share content of /proc/cmdline, which the log includes. How old is your NVidia/what model? Output from 'inxi -GxxS' in Gnome would do for this. A very new model might require a non-FOSS driver from NVidia. If xserver-xorg-video-nouveau is installed, try installing it. If it is not, try purging it. It may be that you don't have non-free repos installed, and need to in order to obtain firmware your NVidia requires. It's possible disabling plymouth could impact this. Either purge it, or add plymouth.enable=0 to Grub's linux line to find out. Which installation type do you have, legacy/MBR, or UEFI? -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/
