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. In the graphical installer, the mouse and the display work fine. Unlike the olden days, the installer never comes to a "configure X11" section, it never asks me to choose a driver or whatnot. So I have no idea what settings it has assumed. I've rebooted and in the kernel line replace "quiet" with "text" and I can see more messages scroll by quickly, but very early in the process the monitors turn black. I have no way of knowing if the system is running in the dark, I've tried to ssh into the system,but there's no answer. But, then again, I don't know if the sshd service is running. I see various posts about the black screen after startup issue, but I don't find anybody who seems to understand the cause. If you know what to do, or if you can give me some of the proper terminology to describe this problem, then I can Google some more. "black screen of death" was my first guess :), but that leads to a lot of posts about Windoze :) 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/caerodj9erboith+mwlnaba41z1rn0jlkhhyygcr+wsyw1xl...@mail.gmail.com
