[LUNI] Configuring X upon a nvidia geforce 8300 in debian etch

[Barry Von Ahsen]

Jay Strauss wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I can not seem to get my X to work.  When I have a seemingly correct
> xorg.conf (below), when GDM starts on boot, my screen lights, but is
> blank, and then the booting hangs. I'm unable to kill X with
> ctrl-alt-backspace, or get to any other virtual terminals, or ssh to
> the box.
> 
> I have an NVIDIA GeForce 8300 onboard card.  I'm using
> nvidia-kernel-2.6.18-5-686 and tried nvidia-kernel-2.6.18-4-486.
> 
> I copied a xorg.conf from my Ubuntu liveCD (while it was up), with the
> same effect.  I diffed the lsmod from the ubuntu and the debian and I
> don't see anything that jumps out at me (below), except maybe the
> "video" driver at the bottom, but I don't know what module that comes
> from.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> And why is X always such a PITA on Debian?  Ubuntu gets it right every
> time in my experience.

did nvidia-glx get installed?

-barry