Re: X doesn't start after installing debian



Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@xxxxxxx> 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 apt the debian package n"vidia-glx".
But when I then start X I get a blank screen and I don't even get a
console input.

[...]

Since you can't get in via a normal boot, I suggest that you use a
LiveCD and disable [xgk]dm.
[...]

You can also boot into single-user mode from the grub boot loader, no
need for a live cd. I believe that in the default grub configuration,
you will have an entry "recovery mode" which boots into single user
mode and does not start [x,g,k]dm.

If not, just press "e" on the highlighted boot stanza and select the
line starting with "kernel", press "e" again to edit that line, append
"s" (for single), press return to finish editing and "b" to boot with the
changed configuration. This, as said above, should bring you into
single user mode where you can disable x, e.g. by running

"update-rc.d -f gdm remove" on a system with the GNOME Display
Manager, for kdm or xdm just change the name.


Thanks,

Johannes
--
http://www.infoe.de/


--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx



Relevant Pages

  • Re: Non-system disk or disk error
    ... Basically my 5.4 installation will not boot up from a ... standard installation using the ... > FreeBSD-only boot manager (I also tried the ... To unsubscribe, ...
    (freebsd-questions)
  • RE: booting install cd
    ... It's bios may not support ISOLINUX. ... > from CD drive but cannot boot. ... > Have no problem booting Windows Installation CD's ... To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". ...
    (Debian-User)
  • Re: booting sarge from a scsi card that has no bios
    ... sarge CD to boot sarge on scsi disk. ... installation CD can serve as rescue CD, ... with a subject of "unsubscribe". ...
    (Debian-User)
  • Installing on hp tablet laptop from a pen drive
    ... I have been trying to boot from the usb pen drive but no luck. ... Yet the iso image is there. ... By opening a shell, during the installation ... To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ...
    (Debian-User)
  • Re: Grub boot of new install.
    ... But the single user boot seems to work. ... There will be somthing starting up in /etc/rc2.d that causes the reboot. ... To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ...
    (Debian-User)