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Hi everyone , I just finish Salix frech installation , all was ok , rebooting and i got error plz any help ?
using nvidia Gtx 550 ti as Gpu with hdmi port .

Hi again , after a lot of search , I can only boot to the desktop only when passign this to kernel "acpi=off"
what s this means ?, also the desktop is small , it does nt fit all the screen
may be i need the nvidia close drivers ?

I guess this will serve as an temporary introduction since I'm new to the forum.

Both problems refer to hard drives and partitions. I haven't had a problem with either
and with linux kernel-3.10 they seem to go away.

You should google 'bad lun' and maybe your type of computer with 'boot with no acpi'.

And also 'dmesg'.

recan wrote:Hi again , after a lot of search , I can only boot to the desktop only when passign this to kernel "acpi=off"
what s this means ?, also the desktop is small , it does nt fit all the screen
may be i need the nvidia close drivers ?

That means that the acpi implementation in your motherboard is buggy. You can add "acpi=off" to the lilo append line in /etc/lilo.conf to make it permanent (run lilo to apply your changes). To use a different resolution you can add a minimal configuration file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d, or try to install the binary drivers from nvidia.

HI and thank you for your answers ; I try to install nvidia drivers but it failed ,
I have delelated all partitions and I made a new with ext4 and swap but the problems is the same,
if the acpi=off is needed , why some distros work without adding any things like Debian and deritives mint or Solydx.
if it is a hardware problems tell me if I need to change my motherbord gibabyte H61 ,Gpu or power supply.
the strange with another distro -manjaro -I was nt able to mount ext4 partitions when using nvidia free drivers ! while free driver is for Gpu no relation with hdd ?
I tried to install slackware xfce 14 but it need also acpi=off and a lot of settings
any help plz will be appreciated
forgive my english

In answer to some of your questions, my understanding is that different kernel versions may cope better or worse with particular hardware problems. While it's not necessarily the case that a more recent kernel version will be more robust in the relevant department (the opposite can be true), you might try Salix 14.1 beta, which is stable and almost complete.

For help with proprietary Nvidia drivers, check the wiki and the forum - there is probably something useful there.

This is probably soluble one way or another - please keep us posted!

These might help:
It would help to provide more information about your computer setup and motherboard.

Bonsoir, recan,

Welcome to the Salix User Forum. Based on your description and screenshots, it sounds like a problem with your Nvidia card. (I have an integrated Nvidia card, too, and it can be difficult in some Linux distros). I think that installing a proprietary Nvidia driver might solve your issue(s).

The discussion thread below has links to some alternative methods of installing the proprietary driver:

http://forum.salixos.org/viewtopic.php? ... dia#p32724
"Re: Dark screen." 31 Dec. 2013.

Hope this helps. Good luck / Bonne chance.

P.S.
It looks like the Nvidia driver you need for your GTX 550 Ti can be downloaded from here. (You might want to double-check my searching):

http://www.nvidia.fr/download/driverRes ... x/72282/fr
[ver. 331.38] (Linux 32-bit driver, en fran,cais) 37 MB

http://www.nvidia.fr/download/driverRes ... x/72318/fr
[ver. 331.38] (Linux 64-bit driver, en fran,cais) 60 MB

Hi again , thank you for all your helping it is good to see that, again I trying to solve this , when attemp o install Nvidia driver
it ask about kernel source
this is the message I got

ERROR: Unable to find the kernel source tree for the currently running
kernel. Please make sure you have installed the kernel source files
for your kernel and that they are properly configured; on Red Hat
Linux systems, for example, be sure you have the 'kernel-source' or
'kernel-devel' RPM installed. If you know the correct kernel source
files are installed, you may specify the kernel source path with the
'--kernel-source-path' command line option.

how I must solve this.