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Originally posted by X11: I pop a cap in yo ass:
[QB]Debian uses a frame buffer driver which your graphic card is not liking. Its also a crap graphic card and you would be able to get a Geforce2 for a nice price these days .
it's a laptop, and the framebuffer thing has been pointed out already thanks.
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There should be a option to turn off frame buffer.
there is. i pushed f5 on the first install screen, as told, and sure enough there were the instructions i needed.
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Also it may be your monitor not liking whatever resolution you put it in.
it's not but i think that might be a problem i am having in lycoris desktop l/x, but that's another story.
As an update, i can install debian fine now without using the framebuffer, but then on first boot it uses the framebuffer
so i suppose i now have to give the vga... option to the kernel on bootup (in whatever bootloader i use) to get it to work.