I installed Debian 7.3 along with Windows 7, on my Acer Travelmate 2480 (1.73-GHz Intel Celeron M, 80GB HDD, 1GB RAM, Mobile Intel 945GM/GU Express graphics). I downloaded Debian CD-1 and checked its MD5 hash,then I created a bootable USB using Unetbootin.
When I chose to boot Debian the execution was stopping at a line that says pcspkr already registered ... aborting, and then I get a black screen and I can only reboot with Alt+Ctrl+Del.
I searched about this issue, and found a solution to add nomodeset at the end of line that starts with linux when I edit the boot commands in Grub using e, this time it worked but Debian was booting only in text mode.
I'm aware that the issue is related to the graphics driver, but I'm new to Linux, so how can I use the text mode to fix this issue? Or is there any other solution?
Best Answer
I learned a lot from this issue, and here's how to fix it, when you install Debian from CD 1 and you don't use a mirror, the base system will be installed only, and the apt sources.list files contains only the cdrom source and the security updates source.
So first we need to add a packages repository to the file
/etc/apt/sources.listin the command line run
and add
after that we need to run
I chose to install the default environment using tasksel, we need to install aptitude and tasksel so we can install Gnome
and then
now the
gnomw-desktoptask will be installed, and then you can runstartxto start the environment.