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gurnarok

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From: Turku, Finland

Registered: 2012-04-15

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[SOLVED] Nvidia GeForce GT220 broken

So, I tried to check out the latest and greatest of #! live session, I got greeted by this

I had this problem when I was trying to use 64 and 32-bit versions, as well as trying to use #! 10 BPO versions, I currently have 32-bit version running, since it seems to be the only one that I had success on running.

Should I use my old ATI card, to get everything working and then install the Nvidia drivers, or how should I proceed?

Last edited by gurnarok (2012-07-30 10:10:37)

xaos52

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From: Planet of the @s

Registered: 2011-06-24

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Re: [SOLVED] Nvidia GeForce GT220 broken

Try  the 'nomodeset' boot parameter.

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gurnarok

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From: Turku, Finland

Registered: 2012-04-15

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Re: [SOLVED] Nvidia GeForce GT220 broken

Try  the 'nomodeset' boot parameter.

How do I set that? I didn't see any options on the boot selection (live, install, test mem)

xaos52

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From: Planet of the @s

Registered: 2011-06-24

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Re: [SOLVED] Nvidia GeForce GT220 broken

Edit /etc/default/grub as root.
Change line

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

to

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash nomodeset" 

Then run

sudo update-grub

and reboot.

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gurnarok

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From: Turku, Finland

Registered: 2012-04-15

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Re: [SOLVED] Nvidia GeForce GT220 broken

Edit /etc/default/grub as root.
Change line

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

to

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash nomodeset" 

Then run

sudo update-grub

and reboot.

I am trying to run the live system, do I need to edit the grub on the USB?

xaos52

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From: Planet of the @s

Registered: 2011-06-24

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Re: [SOLVED] Nvidia GeForce GT220 broken

No, for the live system, you better use the GRUB edit capability:
When you have the GRUB menu displayed, put the cursor over the line you want to boot, press e, position the cursor after the line starting with 'linux', Use back arrow to position the cursor at the end of the previous line and add a space followed by 'nomodeset' (without the quotes).

Then press F10 or Ctrl+X to boot.

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gurnarok

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From: Turku, Finland

Registered: 2012-04-15

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Re: [SOLVED] Nvidia GeForce GT220 broken

No, for the live system, you better use the GRUB edit capability:
When you have the GRUB menu displayed, put the cursor over the line you want to boot, press e, position the cursor after the line starting with 'linux', Use back arrow to position the cursor at the end of the previous line and add a space followed by 'nomodeset' (without the quotes).

Then press F10 or Ctrl+X to boot.

There is no e option on waldorf boot list, should I install it first then edit the grub to work?

kozimodo

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Re: [SOLVED] Nvidia GeForce GT220 broken

When the boot menu comes up press tab.

gurnarok

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From: Turku, Finland

Registered: 2012-04-15

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Re: [SOLVED] Nvidia GeForce GT220 broken

Sorry that I haven't posted in a while, but the problems seems to be in the 64-bit version, tried using 32-bit as a last resort and it works fine. Tried also other linux distributions, like Ubuntu, Ubuntu studio, Fedora, openSuse etc, but only version that works is the 32-bit, not 64-bit.

Might be because I have some component that the 64-bit kernel does not like or something else.

Edit:

After installing the system, I edited GRUB to use nomodeset on boot and did all the updates and such, then used this to install Nvidia drivers and it started to work.

Last edited by gurnarok (2012-07-30 10:12:33)