On Sun, May 21, 2023 at 03:16:56PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > On 2023-05-19 23:32, Gary Dale wrote: > > I'm running Debian/Bookworm on an ASUS FA506IC laptop. It's got an AMD > > Ryzen processor but an NVidia graphics card that provides me with great > > evidence for why I had previously avoided NVidia cards. I'm running > > Bookworm because I couldn't get it work on Bullseye. > > > > It'd been running OK with the proprietary drivers (but not the Nouveau) > > until earlier today. I don't use it very often so it was probably a few > > weeks since I last updated it. I had trouble the previous time I'd > > updated it too, but that was the move to the non-free-firmware section > > that messed it up. Once I added the new section to the sources, things > > worked again. > > > > The symptoms I'm getting are the same as what it used to display when I > > tried to use sddm to start the desktop. Gdm3 and lightdm both worked in > > the past but now I'm getting the same symptom with all of them - a blank > > screen with a cursor flashing in the top-left corner. At that point I > > can't even bring up a text console, but I can reboot (ctrl-alt-del still > > works). > > > > I can boot to a recovery mode and start the network, but not sure how to > > track this down. Removing and reinstalling the NVidia driver didn't > > help. Trying to start the desktop without the NVidia driver (and > > firmware) installed also didn't work. I still get the system booting to > > a blank screen with a flashing cursor in the top let corner. > > > > Any ideas?
Yes, > Further to above, I purged the nVidia drivers then noticed that there was > still some nVidia stuff left (e.g. nvidia-persistence) so I did a further > purge. When I rebooted, the system stalled initially after a couple of ACPI > errors (there were only those lines on the screen - it was barely starting) > but a ctrl-alt-del later and it got all the way to starting the nouveau > drivers before stalling. > > I reinstalled the nVidia drivers and was back to the same problem. Rebooting > to recovery mode and checking the journal for the previous boot, there were > a string of errors relating to lightdm failing to start, followed by retry > and the same error. > > I purged lightdm, rebooted and re-installed it but got the same errors. > > I don't believe this is a problem with lightdm because it is also happening > with gdm3 and sddm. The only difference is that its been happening with sddm > since I got the laptop last November whereas the problem with lightdm and > gdm3 is much more recent. > > I can run the system with the Nouveau drivers when booting from > systemrescuecd (a couple of recent versions, including 10.0), so this is a > Debian issue. Share with the Debian community the X server logs of "Debian" and "systemrescuecd". Groeten Geert Stappers -- Silence is hard to parse
