Debian Jessie install problem

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Richard Reina

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Jul 20, 2015, 11:29:35 AM7/20/15
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I have installed Debian Jessie on my Dell Latitude D820. However, when the machine finished booting the screen is black. I can see and move the curser on the screen but that is all I can see. Cntrl-Alt-Backspace does nothing but I am able to boot in rescue mode. Not sure what to do from there. Any ideas would be great.


eviljoel

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Jul 20, 2015, 8:56:00 PM7/20/15
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Hey Richard,

I don't use Debian but I do use Ubuntu. If I had this issue, I would try
various kernel boot parameters to see if you can disable some feature
that might be causing this issue. I might also try to switch my video
driver when chroot-ed from your rescue environment to your production
environment.

From a rescue CD, you should be able to access logs from the last boot.
These should prove very useful in diagnosing your issue.

There are probably tons of other things you can do that I can't think of
at the moment. :-)

- eviljoel

On 07/20/2015 10:29 AM, Richard Reina wrote:
> I have installed Debian Jessie on my Dell Latitude D820. However, when the machine finished booting the screen is black. I can see and move the curser on the screen but that is all I can see. Cntrl-Alt-Backspace does nothing but I am able to boot in rescue mode. Not sure what to do from there. Any ideas would be great.
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Samir Faci

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Jul 20, 2015, 9:45:29 PM7/20/15
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Just out of curiosity.. what video card are you using? I've had issues with nvidia with a similar behavior.  Usually a mix of using nv vs nvidia vs whatever the default 
driver is got me some display to work.

If you're computer is very new or very old you tend to have issues with nvidia.  (ie. my last PC had a card that reached it's end of life and the driver was hosed)



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Richard Reina

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Jul 21, 2015, 11:40:00 AM7/21/15
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No idea what video card it was. It was a net install via a boot stick that I created with UNETBOOTIN so it would not work as a rescue disc.  Unetbootin only gives me a netinstall version for Debian so I just started over and installed Ubuntu instead.


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