I recently wanted to solve a problem with using a second monitor from my laptop that is running debian (jessie) but because I lack knowledge things didn't go as planned. Now I am getting booted into tty1
, without any kind of graphical environment starting.
I got a Dell XPS17 laptop, using an Intel HD 2nd gen chipset and a Nvidia gt555m graphic card.
What I initially did was install some drivers (some nvidia drivers iirc) and then creating an xorg.conf
.
When I now execute startx
only a black screen appears, but no errors are printed in the /var/log/Xorg.0.log
.
My goal is to make the default laptop display run again, using the Intel hd graphic card and an additional monitor using the Nvidia card (but I would be happy as well if only the laptop display would work again).
What do? I'm not that familiar with Linux/unix and I would appreciate any stp-by-step solution available.
Xorg -configure
(see: the Debian documentation on Xorg). – Benjamin B. Jul 31 '15 at 17:26