Debian Installation?

fvs

Not sure if it's the right place to find out about this problem, But I'm just trying to install Debian and after along install I can't seem to start up the Gui,
I've tried to use "startx" and I get a message that it can't recognize my video card, Which is EVGA that works in my other distro (Fedora 5) fawless.
Well I'm just trying to see if anyone else has had this problem? I have been browsing Googles and different forums, no luck yet. Thanks. fvs

Enverex

Have you installed the graphics card drivers (EVGA is a contractor, not a card brand) and set up your xorg.conf file properly?

fvs

The card is eVGA 128-TC-2N27-SX Geforce 6200 LE TC Supporting 512MB and I choose the the auto detect on menu. I never installed any drivers for it, I have been using it with Fedora. How do i go about installing drivers?

Enverex

Same as with Windows, unless Fedora has a special package based system. Just go to nvidia.com and download the Linux drivers.

fvs

Enverex wrote:

Same as with Windows, unless Fedora has a special package based system. Just go to nvidia.com and download the Linux drivers.

Thanks

Sledgehammer70

Let us know if it works out for you...

drasnor

If you haven't installed the drivers yet, you can should use apt-get to install them. I found a guide for doing so here. Essentially, just run
apt-get install module-assistant nvidia-kernel-common
m-a prepare
m-a auto-install nvidia
apt-get -t $NVDIST install nvidia-glx
* say 'yes' to "install TLS libraries"
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
* select 'nvidia' for your X server driver
* deselect 'GLCore' and 'dri' in your X server modules
* select 'glx' in your X server modules.
Try to use Debian's package manager to manage your system where possible. It will save you a whole lot of grief later on when you need to update.

-drasnor