I recently wanted to solve a problem with using a second monitor from my laptop that is running debian (jessie) but because I lack knowledge things didn't go as planned. Now I am getting booted into tty1, without any kind of graphical environment starting. I got a Dell XPS17 laptop, using an Intel HD 2nd gen chipset and a Nvidia gt555m graphic card. What I initially did was install some drivers (some nvidia drivers iirc) and then creating an xorg.conf.When I now execute startx only a black screen appears, but no errors are printed in the /var/log/Xorg.0.log. My goal is to make the default laptop display run again, using the Intel hd graphic card and an additional monitor using the Nvidia card (but I would be happy as well if only the laptop display would work again). What do? I'm not that familiar with Linux/unix and I would appreciate any stp-by-step solution available.
Why does startx give a black screen, with no errors?
linux;debian;xorg;nvidia;intel graphics