On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> wrote: > On 2012-05-14 19:26 +0200, Paul Johnson wrote: > >> On a Dell Precision workstation, there is an Nvidia Quadro card with a >> weird connector in which we have a "dongle" thing that provides plugs >> for four monitors. I've been running RedHat Linux 5.5 for a while and >> decided to try the Debian net installer >> >> The graphical install proceeds as usual (I've done Linux installs at >> least 50 times), the packages install, the grub install is fine, the >> system restarts, I choose Debian, and some lines display very quickly >> before the monitors turn off. > > To get a running system, boot with the "nomodeset" kernel parameter, > hopefully this gets X up with the vesa driver. > > Cheers, > Sven
YES. This worked. I put "text nomodeset" in the kernel line (replaced "quiet") and was able to get a console and fix things up. I decided to install the nvidia driver and used a package called nvidia-xconfig to scribble a basic xorg.conf file that was sufficient to start X11. pj -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science Assoc. Director 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 Center for Research Methods University of Kansas University of Kansas http://pj.freefaculty.org http://quant.ku.edu -- 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/CAErODj__BFk-QpR9tfsFfeN3dRb7dDFEK9=zj0wwkzihhsa...@mail.gmail.com