Well, I'm not sure what happened, but I got rid of the NIS. When it was trying to do the ypbind thing I hit ctrl-c, but that didn't seem to do anything. For some reason, though, it didn't boot into the GUI but to a prompt.. so I logged in there and did the apt-get remove nis thing, which seemed to go ok.. then I rebooted.. it didn't do the NIS thing, of course, but still ends up going to a black screen (if I use my crt) or out of range (if on my lcd).

Any ideas?