On 2015-11-13 00:35 +0100, David Christensen wrote:
> On 11/12/2015 02:05 PM, Sven Joachim wrote:
>> Please press 'e' rather than 'c' in the grub
>> menu and edit the line starting with "linux".
>
> Okay:
>
> linux /vmlinuz-3.16.0-4-amd64 root=/dev/mapper/sda3_crypt\
> ro quiet systemd.unit=multi-user.target
>
>
> Then press Ctrl+x to boot. I arrive at a text console. Login as root:
>
> root@i72720qm:~# lsmod | grep ^nouveau
> nouveau 1122419 1
>
>
> So, it appears that the nouveau kernel module is loaded.
This is nice, but not consistent with the result in your original
report. Can you please send the complete dmesg output?
> Login as unprivileged user. Start X Windows:
>
> toor@i72720qm:~$ startx
>
>
> I arrive at the Xfce desktop.
>
>
> When I log out, I arrive back at the text console where I left off.
>
>
> So, now I have a work-around (that reminds me of ~10 years ago).
>
>
> I would still like to get the graphical login manager working.
Probably something like this would work (see modules-load.d(5)):
# echo nouveau > /etc/modules-load.d/nouveau.conf
This would hopefully load the nouveau kernel module early enough.
However, I still don't understand why this apparently isn't done by
udev.
Cheers,
Sven
