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Colonel Panic:
Hello everybody,
I've recently installed Siduction and unfortunately when I try to boot it up I find that the boot up text breaks up after a few seconds and I get a screenful of dots and dashes which fade away into blackness as the boot up progresses,, so I never get to the log in stage. I think it's probably a video driver problem but I'm not sure.
I've got a 2008 Acer Midi tower computer with NVidia GeForce 8400 graphics. Could anyone please tell me what's going wrong?

Thanks in advance,
CP .

piper:
1) You can come to IRC and ask for a new build (devil, agaida, or myself will build one for you.

2) what happens if you do ctrl+alt+f1, can you login as root and do


--- Code: ---apt update; apt install nvidia-legacy-340xx --install-recommends
--- End code ---

3) your video card finally died :(

4) I would go with option 1 if option 2 don't work   ;)

melmarker:
The maybe better solution: Spend 30$ on an old computer (half the age)

piper:
I agree, but was trying to be nice

piper3, piper4, computers are older, piper4 has nvidia 7900  ;)

Colonel Panic:
Thanks to everyone who's replied. I know my video card is still functional because I'm in a different distro now (AntiX) and the display is fine.
Piper, I tried ctrl+alt+f1 but it didn't make any difference to the bootup - I still ended up with the same screen of rapidly fading garbage.
Thanks also for your suggestion that I should install some new nvidia drivers. I might try chrooting over to siduction from here and seeing if I can install nvidia drivers that way.

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