Bug#735424: Only blank screen after system-upgrade from wheezy to jessie

[Vincent Cheng]

On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 8:57 PM, Mgr. Peter Tuhársky <tuharsky at misbb.sk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have the same problem with HP Compaq nx9105. Wheezy worked well. After
> fresh install of Jessie, only black screen. From the X.org log it seems that
> none of the graphic drivers worked.
>
> According to lspci, the video is NV17M Geforce4 420 Go 32M.
>
> Is there something to do in order to make Jessie run on this machine?

This is completely unrelated to #735424. AFAIK, your nvidia GPU is so
old that it's only supported by the 96.xx nvidia driver series, which
was removed from jessie because it's no longer compatible with the
version of X shipped in jessie (and nvidia themselves no longer
support it); see bug #755453 [1]. You'll have to either switch to the
free/non-proprietary drivers (nouveau), or switch to a newer graphics
card, in order to run jessie.

Regards,
Vincent

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/755453