Re: New Debian install problem

2009-11-21 Thread T o n g
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:27:06 -0900, Greg Madden wrote: > It is a driver, video card issue, ATI. The radeon driver changed. Search > for 'white screen of death' , ATI Ok, the problem is all over the web, from time to time. what's the solution? I don't have any proprietary fglrx ati drivers insta

Re: New Debian install problem

2009-11-19 Thread Brian Denheyer
Mike, That's great ! I'm not quite sure why you could see a mouse pointer if your video card wasn't working. Very strange. My experience with ATI and Linux has been very bad. I've got an ATI in this G5 that I'm using and it's been the first ATI card which has worked reliably for me under Linu

New Debian install problem

2009-11-18 Thread Brian Denheyer
Mike, A mouse pointer is a good thing as it means X is probably working. To get a login window you need a "display manager" of some sort. Usually its "gdm", but could also be mwm, kdm, and several others (I think). Make sure that gdm is installed, e.g. ii gdm2.20.10-1 GNOME

Re: New Debian install problem

2009-11-18 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 18 November 2009 16:51:38 Mike Allegro wrote: > I just installed Debian 5.0 and it seem to install just fine. After the > installation I rebooted my computer and Debian Linux loaded up, when it > goes into the graphics part I see a blue screen with a symbol that > reminds me of the ho

New Debian install problem

2009-11-18 Thread Mike Allegro
I just installed Debian 5.0 and it seem to install just fine. After the installation I rebooted my computer and Debian Linux loaded up, when it goes into the graphics part I see a blue screen with a symbol that reminds me of the hour glass symbol from Microsoft Windows. After the symbol disapp