Re: How to ditch nouveau driver with nVidia card
On 2013-10-31 18:21 +0100, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> writes:
>
> [...]
>
> Harry wrote:
>>> It fixes my goofy screen problem but it does cause bootup to go into
>>> maintenance mode. Telling me to enter root passwd or press C-d.
>>>
>>> I press C-d and it finishes booting up normally.
>
> Sven Replied:
>> This is rather odd and indicates that you are booting in single user
>> mode, perhaps by passing "init 1" or "single" as boot parameters. The
>> answer should be found in /proc/cmdline.
>
> cat /proc/cmdline
> BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.0.0-1-686-pae root=UUID=83a94f1d-e6e6-432e-86ad-b24754755fff ro single
>
> Haaa you nailed that, but how does it get there... where is single
> being set?
The Debian scripts for grub by default create two entries for each
installed kernel, and one of them (the one labeled with 'recovery mode')
has this parameter.
> It happened the moment I added this to the kernel line in
> /boot/grub/grub.cfg, `nouveau.noaccel=1', like so:
>
> linux /vmlinuz-3.0.0-1-686-pae root=UUID=83a94f1d-e6e6-432e-86ad-b24754755fff ro quiet splash nouveau.noaccel=1
Which is apparently not the kernel you booted with, since all those
options are missing from /proc/cmdline.
BTW, have you considered upgrading your kernel? Linux 3.0 is not
supported by anyone, and it is quite possible that you don't need
nouveau.noaccel=1 with newer kernels.
Cheers,
Sven
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