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 > >

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

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, yo

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

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

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 n"vi

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? :)

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 disabl

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 n"vidia-glx". > But when I then start X I

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 instal

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 n"vidia-glx". But when I then start X I get a blank screen