After following the directions in this post: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=122257
I was able to get Mint 13 Mate installed and booted up using the "nomode xforcevesa" line added by editing at boot time. When I re-boot after installing or trying to install the Nvidia drivers, it seems that xorg.conf causes the boot to stop and I again have to add the "nomode xforcevesa" line to get into Mint 13 Mate.
My system is a Dell Dimenstion 2350 with:
-Integrated Intel ethernet and video chip (in the BIOS the ethernet is turned off to use a PCI ethernet card; the video is set to "Auto" [no option for "Off"] )
Here are the results of LSPCI
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$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 03)
00:02.0 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 82)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DB (ICH4) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
01:04.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV44A [GeForce 6200] (rev a1)
01:06.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
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$ inxi -Fc 0
System: Host: gracie-2 Kernel: 3.2.0-23-generic i686 (32 bit) Desktop: N/A Distro: Linux Mint 13 Maya
Machine: System: Dell product: Dimension 2350 version: A02
Mobo: Dell model: N/A Bios: Mitac version: A02 date: 03/24/2003
CPU: Single core Intel Pentium 4 CPU (-UP-) cache: 512 KB flags: (sse sse2) clocked at 1794.117 MHz
Graphics: Card: NVIDIA NV44A [GeForce 6200] X.Org: 1.11.3 driver: vesa Resolution: 1280x1024@0.0hz
GLX Renderer: N/A GLX Version: N/A
Audio: Card: Intel 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller driver: snd_intel8x0
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ver: 1.0.24
Network: Card: Realtek RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver: r8169
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 00:##:##:##:##:##
Drives: HDD Total Size: 160.0GB (3.7% used) 1: /dev/sda WDC_WD800BB 80.0GB
2: /dev/sdb Maxtor_98196H8 80.0GB
Partition: ID: / size: 14G used: 4.4G (34%) fs: ext4 ID: /boot size: 447M used: 26M (7%) fs: ext2
ID: /home size: 59G used: 1.1G (2%) fs: ext4 ID: swap-1 size: 2.05GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap
Sensors: Error: You do not have the sensors app installed.
Info: Processes: 126 Uptime: 5 min Memory: 278.5/2012.5MB Client: Shell inxi: 1.7.33
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$ inxi -SGx
System: Host: gracie-2 Kernel: 3.2.0-23-generic i686 (32 bit, gcc: 4.6.3) Desktop: N/A Distro: Linux Mint 13 Maya
Graphics: Card: NVIDIA NV44A [GeForce 6200] bus-ID: 01:04.0 X.Org: 1.11.3 driver: vesa Resolution: 1280x1024@0.0hz
GLX Renderer: N/A GLX Version: N/A Direct Rendering: N/A
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$ inxi -SGx
System: Host: gracie-2 Kernel: 3.2.0-23-generic i686 (32 bit, gcc: 4.6.3) Desktop: N/A Distro: Linux Mint 13 Maya
Graphics: Card: NVIDIA NV44A [GeForce 6200] bus-ID: 01:04.0
X.Org: 1.11.3 drivers: vesa,nouveau (unloaded: fbdev) FAILED: nvidia Resolution: 1280x1024@0.0hz
GLX Renderer: N/A GLX Version: N/A Direct Rendering: N/A
What am I missing?
Thanks