Re: Black Screen on First Boot

From	Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Black Screen on First Boot
Date	2016-12-18 05:50 +0100
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Dan Norton composed on 2016-12-17 20:57 (UTC-0500):

> Felix Miata wrote:

>  > It's probably time to either switch to a newer PC, or try a less
>  > demanding DE, or even another distro, if the Debian installer is making
>  > it too hard for you to avoid Gnome...

> Thanks for your help, Felix.

Glad you got it going. :-)

> I put the adapter cards back in, and successfully re-installed with Xfce
> instead of Gnome. Seems to work pretty well so far. There is some mouse
> sluggishness with Firefox (scroll wheel and marking selections) but
> other apps seem to not have this problem. Sound card output is excellent.

It might be worth checking to see if xserver-xorg-input-libinput is installed 
and used rather than the old xserver-xorg-input-mouse, which is not installed 
here on an even older GeForce2 working nicely in Stretch using TDE on an ancient 
Athlon XP 2100+ (1733MHz).
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Re: Black Screen on First Boot Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com> - 2016-12-18 03:20 +0100
  Re: Black Screen on First Boot Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-12-18 05:50 +0100

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