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no X server available after dist-upgrade from stable to testing
as the topic says.. I have just upgraded from wheezy to jessie and have lost my GUI. I was on kernel 3.4.0-4-686-pae and now I am running on 3.16.0-4-686-pae. I had been using NVIDIA drivers from their website for the last few years. After the upgrade I seem to be stuck in some sort of nvidia/nouveau hell where I can't figure out the right settings to get my X server back.
1) which drivers are the better ones to use.. nouveau or nvidia?
2) how can successfully uninstall whatever I don't need?
Can anyone help me out? I've been banging away on the keys for half a day now trying to reconfigure stuff.
Thanks for any help!
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Presumably you have access to the terminal mode.
Have you tried If x does not start you will get a error log at least for helping the diagnosis. It is quite common a newer version of the kernel could use a wrong driver.
In general you can try the drivers out one by one to get back x. For Debian the drivers are stored in /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers
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