On Fri, 01 Apr 2016 19:58:17 +0200 Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote: > On 2016-04-01 13:40 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > > > Peter Hillier-Brook composed on 2016-04-01 15:14 (UTC+0100): > > > >> Following an overnight shut down I couldn't reach the desktop manager > >> the following day. Running a live system I was able to extract the > >> following via 'dmesg'. Does anyone recognise this, or can offer a > >> pointer to the problem? > >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > >> [ 0.705479] nouveau E[ DEVICE][0000:01:00.0] unknown chipset, 0x124020a1 > >> [ 0.705515] nouveau E[ DRM] failed to create 0x80000080, -22 > >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > Did you upgrade your kernel prior to the reboot? > > > I saw something like this on Mageia in just the past few days. The DRM > > and Nouveau modules were failing to load automatically during boot. I > > got X to work by modprobing nouveau and/or drm. > > > > What does 'lspci | grep VGA' show your gfxcard model is? > > If we can trust Google with the error message, it's a shiny GTX 970. > > > Possibly you have a firmware package installation failure. > > There is no firmware for this card in Debian yet This makes no sense. Unless OP has changed his hardware overnight, then this shouldn't be happening, since it worked fine before. It seems we can't trust Google with anything.
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