Peter,

Thanks for you comments. Based on them, Xis not running. I have not
installed nvidia drivers yet, so I am not taking full advantage of the
hw, but at least its up. I am hoping there is a way to install the
nividia driver without recompiing linux source.

John

Peter Mattern wrote:
> Within the last months I could install several different etch-Versions
> (beta, RC1) on both a desktop system based on Gigabyte's GA-M55plus-S3G
> (grapics: nvidia GeForce 6100) and an Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Pro 2055
> (graphics VIA UniChrome) without any problems concerning X. This means,
> the installer chose, lacking a special driver for the graphics, the vesa
> driver, enabling me to install the proprietary nvidia driver and the one
> from openchrome.org in a second step - all without any problems.
>
> Since a couple of days I also get the message about the missing kbd and
> mouse modules - on both machines, and using exactly the same old RC1
> installation media. Furthermore, the debian installer installs only the
> fglrx (!) driver. The problem also appears the same way using weekly
> snapshot and daily build of 2007/01/06.
>
> Solution:
> Manually install xserver-xorg-input-kbd/mouse, xserver-xorg-video-vesa
> (the lack of this module after the normal installation is the reason why
> just entering the module within xorg.conf doesn't work).
> Run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg, chose the manual recognition of the
> graphics card and thus urge X to use the vesa driver.
> Then, in a second step the appropriate driver can be installed.
>
> at jdaues: on the Gigabyte system, everything worked fine using the
> proprietary driver from nvidia.com. I first had to install
> linux-source-2.6.x (there's only one package fiting this scheme
> available), linux-headers-, pkg-config, x-dev. The
> installation had to be done from a text-console with no X running (which
> can be achieved easily using kdm, not using gdm, as far as I know).
>
> at sdpatt: I actually think that this is a bug that ought to be
> reported, isn't it? I'm just not sure about how because it's not obvious
> to me which packet(s) are concerned ...
>
>


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On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 21:44:13 +0000, Digby Tarvin wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 01:37:01PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 12:09:00 +0100, Peter Mattern wrote:
> > > Within the last months I could install several different etch-Versions
> > > (beta, RC1) on both a desktop system based on Gigabyte's GA-M55plus-S3G
> > > (grapics: nvidia GeForce 6100) and an Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Pro 2055
> > > (graphics VIA UniChrome) without any problems concerning X. This means,
> > > the installer chose, lacking a special driver for the graphics, the vesa
> > > driver, enabling me to install the proprietary nvidia driver and the one
> > > from openchrome.org in a second step - all without any problems.
> > >
> > > Since a couple of days I also get the message about the missing kbd and
> > > mouse modules - on both machines, and using exactly the same old RC1
> > > installation media. Furthermore, the debian installer installs only the
> > > fglrx (!) driver. The problem also appears the same way using weekly
> > > snapshot and daily build of 2007/01/06.
> >
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/.../msg00697.html
>
> Same thing here - and I did see that original response.
>
> I must say the original post in this thread was much more useful.
> After all, it seemed a bit obvious that to say that it 'was broken
> and *should* be fixed soon'.

I referred specifically to that post because Joey Hess is one of the
"debian-installer gurus". I meant to assure the OP (and everybody else)
that the bug is known to the right people and will be fixed soon. Of
course, I realize now that I should have provided this information
together with the link.

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Florian


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