black screen after boot up on fresh net-install (Nvidia quadro, Debian 6.0.4); trying to get to terminal mode

2012-05-14 Thread Paul Johnson
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

Re: black screen after boot up on fresh net-install (Nvidia quadro, Debian 6.0.4); trying to get to terminal mode

2012-05-14 Thread Sven Joachim
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

Re: black screen after boot up on fresh net-install (Nvidia quadro, Debian 6.0.4); trying to get to terminal mode

2012-05-14 Thread Paul Johnson
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

Re: black screen after boot up on fresh net-install (Nvidia quadro, Debian 6.0.4); trying to get to terminal mode

2012-05-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 14 mai 12, 22:54:17, Paul Johnson wrote: 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. You can probably get away with just this: Section Device Identifier Device0 Driver