[Cialug] debian605+gdm3

[Dan Hockey]

--- On Mon, 9/3/12, Barry Von Ahsen <barry at vonahsen.com> wrote:

> From: Barry Von Ahsen <barry at vonahsen.com>
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] debian605+gdm3
> To: "Central Iowa Linux Users Group" <cialug at cialug.org>
> Date: Monday, September 3, 2012, 1:19 PM
> On 09/03/2012 01:13 PM, Dan Hockey
> wrote:
> > --- On Mon, 9/3/12, Nicolai <nicolai-cialug at chocolatine.org>
> wrote:
> >> I've been in the same shoes... this year I've
> installed all
> >> 4 of the
> >> BSDs plus Debian GNU/Linux, on multiple machines,
> and found
> >> Debian to be
> >> the only one to lock up for whatever reason.
> >>
> >> Debian has IIRC options for graphical install and
> text
> >> install.  Choose
> >> the other option and try the install again. 
> That's
> >> what I did.
> 
> > I used the text install method for the last two
> installs-one net install and the other from DVD.
> > 
> > I found that when I did the following and rebooted gdm
> still crashed displaying lots of garbled debian logos on the
> screen but now I can log in remotely.
> > 
> > update-rc.d -f gdm remove
> > 
> > I've been trying to find a cli way of reconfiging
> gm3-still googleing...
> 
> on testing and it's move to gnome3/gnome-shell, it pretty
> much requires
> the nouveau drivers and not the nvidia ones.  IDK if
> you have nvidia
> video, but maybe try that
> 
> 
> -barry

I did have an nvidia card in it the first try but swapped it with an
ati with more memory
-dan