On Sun 12 Jul 2020 at 10:45:09 (-0400), David Bridgham wrote: > Andrei POPESCU <andreimpope...@gmail.com > <mailto:andreimpopescu%40gmail.com>> wrote: > > > Check your Xorg.0.log, it should tell you what driver it is loading and > > might hint at why it's not using nouveau. > > Found something very odd when trying to do this. When I boot the older > kernel, the one that works, Xorg doesn't appear to write the log file. > The log file contains the kernel version number and it's never the older > one. I'd meant to compare the two to see where they differ.
Can you show the output of ls -l ~/.local/share/xorg/ /var/log/X* > However, on reading through the log file from when it fails, I see that > it's getting an error about not being able to open /dev/dri/card0. And, > indeed, the directory /dev/dri is missing. When I boot the older kernel > (5.5.0-2), that directory and file are there and everything works. > > So what creates this device and what might have changed that it's no > longer being generated? Cheers, David.
