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List:       debian-user
Subject:    Re: How to ditch nouveau driver with nVidia card
From:       Sven Joachim <svenjoac () gmx ! de>
Date:       2013-10-31 19:33:55
Message-ID: 87a9hpw7z0.fsf () turtle ! gmx ! de
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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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