Debian has blank screen

[abierstedt]

hey everyone,

I have got a new video card for graduation. It is an Gforce 8800 gts.
I have just set up my system with linux and windows but after Debian loads i dont have text of a gui, its just blank. I never had any notifications about X being configured improplerly either. I couldnt find much on googe.com/linux so i decided to check for a solution here. the card did work with ubuntu and open suse 10.2. I installed using the debian amd64 dvd 1. Im downloading the other ones now but i dont know what they will do and if they could fix the problem.

please post if you have a solution.

[devils casper]

press Alt+Ctrl+F1. it will drop you at command line login prompt. log in and execute this

su
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

accept default options and select "vesa" Driver in Video Driver section. reboot machine.

[abierstedt]

thanks for the reply, that does not work but i think its only because the card is not supported yet (maybe, just making an educated guess).

there are beta drivers available but i don't understand how to install it. Can i install this via USB stick? Or if im completely wrong, what are my other options?


Beta Driver - Linux Display Driver - x64 (AMD64/EM64T)

thanks

[devils casper]

post the contents of /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. ( Section Monitor, Video Driver and Screen only )

[abierstedt]

is that shown through


nano ect/X11/xorg.conf ?


because it is just a blank editor, how else can i get to it?

[devils casper]

which version of Debian do you have? cd to /etc/X11 and check what conf files do you have.

[abierstedt]

i think that im doing something wrong when i reconfigure x for the vesa driver. Because it goes through the video keyboard mouse and monitor section and when i get to the end to select the screen depth ( after i select 24 and hit ok )
the reconfigure interface has my command line under it and says-

xserver-org postinst warning overwriting possibly customized configuration at ect/X11/xorg.conf


something to that extent.

Anyway what im tring to say is that there is no option to save the configuration and since it says POSTINST warning. Im assuming there is something i need to type manually in order to get it to work. Am i correct in that? I say this because there is nothing saved to ect/X11/xorg.conf ( respomding back with no such file or directory )


And I am using Debian amd64

[devils casper]

post the output of this

ls /etc/X11

[abierstedt]

ls /etc/X11: no such file or directory


also i noticed that i typed ect in all of my posts. Sorry i didn't mean to to that, thats not what i have been tying in the console as i write all your replies down anyway.

[abierstedt]

hey i just got it working


i installed the nvidia driver and the linux headers. Thanks for helping me