Running debian stable (64 bit). For the past couple of months I've been trying to get a system with onboard Intel graphics to work completely correctly, but have never been able to get rid of flicker on the console tty or on fine text in konsole in a graphical desktop. There are enough threads on the Internet about this sort of issue and the Intel driver to indicate that this is a somewhat common problem with various combinations of hardware when using an Intel chipset, and although there is a lot of ad hoc advice, it seems that not everyone can successfully work around what appears to be a bug in the Intel driver. Having tried all the suggested fixes I saw, and none of them working, I decided to avoid the issue by installing a non-Intel graphics card.
A friend gave me an MSI Geforce GTX 750 Ti card, but I am having no success getting it working. 1. Normally (i.e., when using the Intel hardware/software), after two beeps on power on I can hit DEL a couple of times and be taken to the BIOS control screens. With the Geforce card, everything just stays blank (forever) if I hit DEL after the two beeps. So the first issue is: how can I access the BIOS control screens when using this card? 2. If I boot with the monitor attached to the Geforce card and don't touch anything at all, then, after a very long time, I see the stream of Linux text messages that indicates booting, but I never see a graphical login screen. (The delay before the messages appear is far longer than a normal boot cycle -- indeed, I had given up waiting for something to happen and was pondering my next move when suddenly the messages started flying by). This sounds like perhaps a driver issue of some kind, so what packages do I need to be sure are installed to allow booting into a graphical environment with this card? The one hopeful sign is that when I see that text messages, the text doesn't flicker... unlike when I boot with the Intel chipset/driver. I'm sure I'm missed out important information, so feel free to ask and I'll do my best to answer. Doc -- Web: http://enginehousebooks.com/drevans
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