[Cialug] debian605+gdm3

[Barry Von Ahsen]

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